Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela and the Sowti Squad – what connects them?
Everyone´s heard of the first two but who the hell was the Sowti Squad?
In 1964, Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island while Che Guevara planned to export the Cuban revolution to the Congo Republic. The South Africans wanted Mandela out of the country. America´s CIA wanted Che Guevara to stay in Africa, dead, minus some body parts and with the rest pushing up the local equivalent of daisies.
Africa was the mercenary playground and the S Africans and CIA were the playgroup leaders. They set up the Sowti Squad, an expendable group of mercenaries, to carry out their wishes.
Unfortunately for them, the Sowti Squad not only wanted as much money as possible, but also wanted to live to spend it. No mercenary wants to be the richest corpse in the mortuary.
How well did the Sowti Squad do the job? The book tells why Nelson Mandela remained in prison and how Che Guevara survived the attentions of Africa´s best mercenaries, the Sowti Squad.
The Sowti Squad. Is this book a work of fiction? Of course it is, except for those bits that aren´t. Which bits are and which bits aren´t? Judge for yourself. Was there a Sowti Squad?
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| Perth Australia | |
| Bill on August 31, 2009 wrote: | Reply |
I enjoyed your book. Good plot. lots of action and memorable characters |
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| Oregon USA | |
| Claude on August 24, 2009 wrote: | Reply |
Hi, only bought the book because your hero comes from my State. Sure glad I did. Good read |
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| Good read | |
| Will from N Ireland on August 13, 2009 wrote: | Reply |
Good read. Are you working on another? On August 15, 2009 Ray Kane replied:Thanks, Will. Glad you enjoyed the book. Almost finished first draft of second. |
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| unputdownable | |
| Shawna on August 6, 2009 wrote: | Reply |
I would not normally read this sort of book but the cover and title fascinated me. Boy, am I glad I bought it.A damn good story, great characters -just unputdownable. On August 7, 2009 Ray Kane replied:Glad you enjoyed the book, Shawna. As I told the previous guestbooker I am particularly happy to hear that a book which some might think is male-targeted has been enjoyed by a female reader. |
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| testosterone-dripping-gripping brilliance!!! | |
| Janice McGarvey on July 20, 2009 wrote: | Reply |
I was a little unsure of whether The Sowti Squad was going to be my sort of thing (not being a macho male etc)and not generally into guns,sadism and violence! However, I found it amazingly gripping and hard to put down. Certainly an eye opener into the underhand workings of the ‘respectable face’ of politics! How much of it based on truth and how much is fiction is the intriguing question everyone will ask after reading it! On July 20, 2009 Ray Kane replied:Janice, it always makes me happy to see that the book has appealed to a female reader. As you said, on first glance it looks like a male only read and I'm glad you agree this is not the case. |
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