Kahawa

Donald E. Westlake

first published 1982 Viking Press, 1982 458 pages

What's a mile long, rusty, slow, and worth a fortune? It's a freight train full of kahawa, Swahili for coffee, and it belongs to none other than the jovial, bloodletting dictator Idi Amin. 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 t...

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Kahawa edition · 2007 · Grand Central Publishing · 9780446501040
Kahawa edition · 2006 · Grand Central Publishing · 9780759517776
Kahawa edition · 2001 · Grand Central Publishing · 9780759582965
Kahawa ebook · 2001 · Grand Central Publishing · 9780759562905
Kahawa edition · 2001 · Grand Central Publishing · 9780759593237
Kahawa edition · 2001 · Grand Central Publishing · 9780759542938
Kahawa edition · 2001 · Grand Central Publishing · 9781306753364
Kahawa edition · 2001 · Grand Central Publishing · 9780759502901
Kahawa paperback · 1997 · Rivages · 622 pages · 9782743602475
Kahawa edition · 1996 · Mysterious Press · 490 pages · 9780446403436
Kahawa edition · 1995 · Mysterious Press · 475 pages
Kahawa. edition · 1988 · W.H. Allen · 509 pages

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