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If you like pot boilers with femme fatales and dead bodies, wise-guy tough guys and bullying bad guys, then this one is well done, and for you. It is not really my kind of book, and I do not want to leave a bad review because I do not care for the stylistics of the genre. Read this book in desperation for reading around the world project, could not find anything affordable or by a native writer for Benin. I feel like I did get a good feel for what it must be like to be an expatriot living in Ben
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Very much a "man's" book, this story of a fixer in West Africa was overly descriptive and not really my cup of tea. It does however tick off Benin on my ATW challenge
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