Locked away in his palace of secrets, fear, and torture, Amin doesn't know that in the lush heart of his Uganda some of the world's most unscrupulous, oversexed mercenaries, moneymakers, and thieves are busy plotting to steal all this kahawa in one fell swoop, sending the international coffee market and a varied cast of court jesters, spies, and crooks into deadly conniptions.

You see, in a madman's kingdom, stealing a freight train of coffee isn't just taboo; it's a kick.

"A stunner, a real stunner, the ultimate in the genre of the very hard-boiled thriller... A brilliantly plotted narrative... at times ironically funny, at others sadistic, this could be described as impure Joseph Conrad, plus a wild splash of H. Rider Haggard."
    LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Westlake's grandest caper novel... Kahawa is super whizbang; like a heat-seeking missile, it will unerringly streak to the larcenous side of your heart, and warm it."
    DETROIT NEWS

"A dilly of a thriller... a story with more twists than a mamba... Kahawa is good to the last page."
    NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

"A remarkable novel... Devastating portraits, a wealth of political and historical insights into the African continent, and a hell of a lot of fun."
    ROBERT LUDLUM

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