Aidan McQuade recommends
Into the Mouth of the Lion (2021)
A B Kyazze
"A fine novel, deeply evocative of the devastated cities of the Angolan interior, choking with the displaced and the dying in the final days of that country s brutal civil war. It quite took me back, so much so that I found myself having arguments with characters over some of their security and operational choices. But this, I had to remind myself, was a fictional Angola, where love endures and there is a modicum of justice amidst all the expanse of inhumanity and corruption that Kyazze so meticulously depicts."
