A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

by Michael Peel

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Blending vivid reportage, history, and investigative journalism, in A Swamp Full of Dollars journalist Michael Peel tells the story of this extraordinary country, which grows ever more wild and lawless by the day as its refined petroleum pumps through our cities. Through a host of colorful characters--from the Area Boy gangsters of Lagos to a corrupt state governor who stashed money in his London penthouse, from the militants...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569762864
• ISBN13: 9781569762868
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"