Fact imitates Dogs of War fiction in Equatorial Guinea

Frederick Forsyth wrote it up as The Dogs of War, and set it in Equatorial Guinea: A rag-tag band of mercenaries, recruited by a British elite, tries to seize control of a mineral-rich, African backwater.

Forsyth – writing during a Cold War stay three decades ago on the palm-lashed volcanic island capital of Malabo – rechristened the country Zangoro for the thriller, and put his soldiers of fortune in quest of platinum, not oil.