A teenager’s life is shattered by conflict in this ambitious novel tethered to real-life events “For all the talk of brothers, would any of these men come and get me, birthday or no? Are they faux ...

The “freight dogs” of the title are pilots: shady operators who run illicit cargo in and out of central African war zones. The place is Zaire, subsequently the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The ...

The Last King of Scotland author wrenches readers into a period of horrifying violence for a sharp study of the moral complexity of war A few years ago, I was grounded at Maiduguri airport in northern ...