At a time when the world waits anxiously to see what will happen next in Zimbabwe when there is little food in the country s shops, life expectancy is plunging and Zimbabweans are fleeing repression and unemployment this book gets to grips with the man at the helm of a corrupt regime; the man behind the monster. Holland s tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe the freedom fighter and ends in a searching interview with Zimbabwe s president in December 2007, more than 30 years later. The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe s clever but brutal leader.The Ecomist