As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela

Mark Thomas is one of the UK's most effective and best-known political activists as well as being a highly successful stand-up comedian. His show The Mark Thomas Product ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel Four. Amazingly this is his first book.
As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela is a deeply funny deeply disturbing account of Mark's rampage through the arms trade. Under a fairly flimsy disguise and with the use of some worryingly poor accents Mark set off on a journey of discovery in the company of arms dealers torture victims politicians cops crusties and geeks. The result is a shockingly entertaining read.
Embedded within the sharpness of his humour is the truth of an industry fraught with loopholes complacency and greed; that allows corrupt regimes to kill maim and displace but whose deals are often subsidised by the British taxpayer.
Hard-hitting laugh-out-loud funny and extremely unsettling As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela is never anything less than compulsive.

Mark Thomas