The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth

by Tom Burgis

Simon Mann, an alumnus of Eton and the Scots Guards, went in search of oil revenues in Angola and diamonds in Sierra Leone at the head of a pack of mercenaries and staged a botched attempt at a coup in the tiny petro-state of Equatorial Guinea.