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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.

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. They are four people who never should have found themselves bound together in a mission for revolution.

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. If Deighton's great sagas Game, Set and Match and Hook, Line and Sinker broke new ground for the spy thriller, the Mamista opens a new era for the adventure novel.