In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo Elisabeth Lauffer Her books include mysteries

Her books include mysteries

But when he takes on a beautiful new partner

Several KAP members are killed

but his heart remains pure

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo Elisabeth Lauffer Her books include mysteriesMr. Kurtz, the colonial white master, brought evil to the remote upper reaches of the Congo River. A century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness was first published, Michela Wrong revisits the Congo as the era of Mobutu Sese Seko collapses into absurdity, anarchy and corruption. This is a portrait of the grotesque as confusion takes over: pink lipsticked rebel soldiers mingle with tracksuited secret policemen in hotels where fin de siecle dinner parties