Description Deep in Marxist Guerilla territory a hopeless war is being fought.
This new reissue includes a foreword from the cover designer, Oscar-winning filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman, and a brand new introduction by Len Deighton, which offers a fascin.
Never has Deighton portrayed so accurately the terror and the tedium of war, or the shifting alliances and betrayals between people who have nothing to lose but their lives.
But for the three men and one woman trapped in the jungle of our nightmares it is the sentence of death.
For the men in Washington this Mamista \'patrol\' is just one short entry in a busy worldwide agenda.
In the jungle she is the butt of men\'s jokes and the subject of their fantasies.
At guerrilla headquarters she was Ramon\'s right-hand.
But it is Inez who will suffer the most; for being a woman, an educated woman.
His arrogance will set in motion the last terrible endgame.
Angel Paz, part charming youngster, part violent hoodlum, has theories about everything.
Up to a point.
He can take it.
Gerald Singer, tough, black warrior, with an indomitable sense of humour, was already in guerrilla territory.
Tending frontline casualties of war, with too few medical supplies and only a beautiful but untrained woman by his side, was not on the agenda.
Ralph Lucas, the Australian doctor, came to the jungle on charitable business, strictly civilian.
They are four people who never should have found themselves bound together in a mission for revolution.
There, four people become caught up in a struggle both political and personal, a struggle corrupted by ironies and deceits, and riddled with the accidents of war.
Mamista takes us to the dusty, violent capital of Spanish Guiana in South America, and thence into the depths of the rain forest; the heart of darkness itself.
Try telling that to Ramon and his desperate men hiding in the jungle cradling their AK 47s, dusting off the slabs of Semtex and dreaming of world revolution.
Marx is dead.
The Berlin Wall is demolished.
Description Deep in Marxist Guerilla territory a hopeless war is being fought
