Baraka or the Lives, Fortunes & Sacred Honor of Anthony Smith
1984
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350
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Sent to Hanoi to secure a promise of permits for offshore oil exploration, Martin Laing finds himself trying to unload five billion dollars worth of blacklisted U.S. arms and ammunition abandoned after the Vietnam War
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Author
John Ralston Saul
Author · 16 books
John Ralston Saul is a Canadian author, essayist, and President of International PEN. As an essayist, Saul is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-, or more precisely technocrat-, led societies; the confusion between leadership and managerialism; military strategy, in particular irregular warfare; the role of freedom of speech and culture; and his critique of contemporary economic arguments.
