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Kahawa

Donald E. Westlake

1982458 pagesabout 7–10 hours
1982
first published
  • 1982Viking Press · 458 pages · ENGISBN 9780670411320
  • 1985Allison & Busby · 460 pages · ENGISBN 9780850316353
  • 1988W.H. Allen · 509 pages · ENGISBN 9780352322494
  • 1995Mysterious Press · 475 pages · ENGISBN 9780892965335
  • 1996Mysterious Press · 490 pages · ENGISBN 9780446403436
  • 2001Grand Central Publishing · ENGISBN 9780759562905
  • 1984Tom Doherty Assoc Llc · ENGISBN 9780812510508
  • Allison & Busby LTD · ENGISBN 9780749001391

What's a mile long, rusty, slow, and worth a fortune? It's a freight train full of kahawa, Swahili for coffee, and it belongs to none other than the jovial, bloodletting dictator Idi Amin. Locked away in his palace of secrets, fear, and torture, Amin doesn't know that in the lush heart of his Uganda some of the world's most unscrupulous, oversexed mercenaries, moneymakers, and thieves are busy plotting to steal all this kahawa in one fell swoop, sending the international coffee market and a varied cast of court jesters, spies, and crooks into deadly conniptions. You see, in a madman's kingdom, stealing a freight train of coffee isn't just taboo; it's a kick.

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