Shortly after his
arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the
scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in
his Maserati, has hit a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator,
obsessed with all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal
physician. So begins a fateful dalliance with the African leader whose
Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a reign of terror.
In The Last King of Scotland,
Foden's Amin is as ridiculous as he is abhorrent: a self-proclaimed
cannibal who, at the end of his eight years in power, would be
responsible for 300,000 deaths. As Garrigan awakens to his patient's
barbarism—-and his own complicity in it—-we enter a venturesome
meditation on conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of the
human heart.
“Narrator Mirron Willis
presents a dazzling cast of characters, including African tribesmen,
diplomats, Scots, and Brits, all with vocal authority, clarity, and
believability….Willis’s work is instrumental in bringing readers
face-to-face with Garrigan’s moral dilemma as he descends from
well-meaning physician to political accomplice.” —AudioFile
“A sobering reality check and an impressive work of fiction.”—Washington Times
“Garrison is the
perfect foil for Amin, whose overwhelming physical presence, peacockish
rhetoric, and cold-blooded savagery are so well captured as to make
this novel more than a mesmerizing read: it is also a forceful account
of a surrealistic and especially ugly chapter of modern history.”—Publishers Weekly
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