As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela

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.

ISBN 0091909228   Pages 352 ISBN13 9780091909222 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Ebury Press   Weight (grammes) 238 Imprint Ebury Press   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 200 Publication date 05 Apr 2007   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 382.456234   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

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