Master thriller writer Frederick Forsyth stumbled into a genuine political coup on a recent research trip to Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.
From the Associated Press:
Hours before he touched down in the West African nation, a bomb hidden under a staircase blew apart the armed forces chief. Hours later the president was gunned down, and according to Forsyth, hacked to pieces.
He said he has stopped inventing fictional places “because the world is so weird and so scary, you might as well use the real ones.”
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Whenever I start to get really frustrated with the direction of America, I turn to African news. Like the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe or the tanker explosion in Kenya. Then I feel a little better.