My Friend the Mercenary
James Brabazon, a war reporter, met Simon Mann while trying to reach the rebel front in Liberia in 2002, and hired him as protection for a journey that turned into months behind rebel lines. Two years later Mann was arrested in Zimbabwe leading an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. Brabazon’s book is both an account of the Liberian war at close range and a portrait of a friendship with a man who turned out to be running a mercenary operation while they travelled together.
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Andy McNab
But ‘mercenary’ is a good word for a book title. Really, it’s all about money. The planned coup was business. Mark Thatcher thought he was buying…what? An air ambulance? What a load of rubbish. Mann would have done a deal to finance the coup – and the money men supporting him would get something out of it, like rights to some mineral mines or first refusal for a power station.
Interview · May 2010
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