Imprint: Ebury Press
Published: 05/04/2007
ISBN: 9780091909222
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 126mm
Weight: 239g
RRP: £12.99
Mark Thomas is one of the UK's most effective and best-known political activists, as well as being a highly successful stand-up comedian. His show, The Mark Thomas Product, ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel Four. Amazingly, this is his first book.
As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela is a deeply funny, deeply disturbing account of Mark's rampage through the arms trade. Under a fairly flimsy disguise and with the use of some worryingly poor accents, Mark set off on a journey of discovery in the company of arms dealers, torture victims, politicians, cops, crusties and geeks. The result is a shockingly entertaining read.
Embedded within the sharpness of his humour is the truth of an industry fraught with loopholes, complacency and greed; that allows corrupt regimes to kill, maim and displace, but whose deals are often subsidised by the British taxpayer.
Hard-hitting, laugh-out-loud funny and extremely unsettling, As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela is never anything less than compulsive.
Imprint: Ebury Press
Published: 05/04/2007
ISBN: 9780091909222
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 126mm
Weight: 239g
RRP: £12.99
John Pilger with laughs
Thomas, in essence, is a brilliant investigative journalist disguised as an angry, shouty comedian ... very funny indeed
A genuine eye-opener
Courageous book ... A humorous yet heartfelt polemic ... Thomas' revelations are riveting
Thomas's investigations are gripping