Zanzibar

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 390. Baize-green paper boards, lettered in ecru to spine; sky-blue endpapers. Jacket design by Steve Caplin.

Signed by Author to title-page. Toning to textblock edges, else Fine.

His third novel. A dramatic political thriller featuring Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network long before "September 11" made them notorious. A portion of it originally appeared in Arena magazine in 1999, while another piece of work in progress was published in The Weekenders anthology (Random House, 2001). Currently a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Foden continues to contribute to The Guardian where he was deputy literary editor for over a decade. "Giles Foden is the most original and interesting novelist of his generation." –Allan Massie, The Scotsman