Böcker av Christopher Othen

When communism fell in Poland, the mafia stepped in to fill the power vacuum: welcome to a world of Adidas, Kalashnikovs, and organised crime

The Men from Miami is a real-life Cold War thriller about the Americans who fought for Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution - then switched sides to try to bring him down.

A fascinating, evocative portrait of occupied Paris that proves that life is often stranger than fiction.

In King Leopold II's infamous Congo `Free' State at the turn of the century, severed hands became a form of currency. For two and a half years Katanga, the scrawniest underdog ever to fight a war, held off the world with guerrilla warfare, two-faced diplomacy and some shady financial backing.