From the author of The Last King of Scotl&, author Giles Foden tells the unlikely true-life story of a group of 28 soldiers dispatched from Britain during World War One with order to wrest control of Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa from German warships. To reach it, the soldiers had to haul two motorboats with the unlikely names of Mimi & Toutou through the wilds of the Congo. The 28 were a strange bunch -- one was addicted to Worcester sauce, another was a former racing driver -- but the strangest of all of them was their skirt-wearing, tattoo-covered commander, Geoffrey Spicer-Simson. Whatever it took, even if it meant becoming the god of a local tribe, he was determined to cover himself in glory. But the Germans had a surprise in store for Spicer-Simson, in the shape of their secret `supership`, the ‘ Graf von Gotzen’. Unearthing new German & African records, Foden’s work has been described as Fitzcarraldo meets Heart of Darknessand rich, vivid & ‘flashmanesque’ in its appeal – this is military history at its most absorbing & entertaining.