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Apr 29, 2018 with my friend the mercenary, firsttime author james brabazon certainly cooks this mix into a fastpaced pageturner. James brabazon was recently featured on national public radios popular weekend program snap judgment were he described his experience filming a documentary about the war in liberia. Dispatches my friend the mercenary tv episode 2005. James brabazon is an awardwinning frontline journalist and documentary filmmaker.
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My friend the mercenary hardcover international edition january 25 2011. Nick is certainly a unique character, and he is the highlight of the novel. My friend the mercenary by james brabazon 9781847674418 for. In 2002, british journalist james brabazon set out to travel with guerrilla forces into liberia to show the world what was happening in that wartorn country.
Based in london, he has travelled in over seventy countries. Due to a twist of fate james brabazon remains free to tell the story. Brabazon hired du toit as his bodyguard and the two formed a close friendship, despite brabazons unease with du toits past as a veteran of the apartheidera south african army. In the latest mens journal, pelton chronicles his epic journey to help free his friend and gunforhire, \\ my friend, the mercenary from hell wired my friend, the mercenary from hell. Describes how an unlikely friendship forged between the author, a british journalist, and nick du toit, his bodyguard and a notorious mercenary, during liberias civil war led to a covert plot to overthrow the government of equatorial guinea.
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