基本信息出版社：Ebury Press
页码：352 页
出版日期：2007年05月
ISBN：0091909228
条形码：9780091909222
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 Mark Thomas is one of the UK's most effective and best-known political activists, as well as being a highly successful stand-up comedian. His show, "The Mark Thomas Product", ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel Four. Amazingly, this is his first book. "As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela" is a deeply funny, deeply disturbing account of Mark's rampage through the arms trade. Under a fairly flimsy disguise and with the use of some worryingly poor accents, Mark set off on a journey of discovery in the company of arms dealers, torture victims, politicians, cops, crusties and geeks. The result is a shockingly entertaining read. Embedded within the sharpness of his humour is the truth of an industry fraught with loopholes, complacency and greed; that allows corrupt regimes to kill, maim and displace, but whose deals are often subsidised by the British taxpayer. Hard-hitting, laugh-out-loud funny and extremely unsettling, "As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela" is never anything less than compulsive.
作者简介 Mark Thomas's activist brand of comedy has been a thorn in the side of many politicians and corporations.
编辑推荐 Review
'John Pilger with laughs', The Guardian .'Thomas, in essence, is a brilliant investigative journalist disguised as an angry, shouty comedian ... very funny indeed', Daily Telegraph --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.