MAU MAU MANHUNT

by William W. Baldwin ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A 1954 tour of duty in the Kenya Police Reserve, for an itinerant American with an irate trigger finger, pounds hard on the trail of the Mau Mau. William Baldwin happened into Kenya and found a job with the force that sought out gangs of terrorists in forest hideouts. After viewing their tactics, he decided the only good Mau Mau was a very, very dead one -- and Operation Anvil gave him the chance to hammer his decision home. Between the stories of raids, retaliatory sorties, vigilante injustice (shooting men down as they talked to them), there is a sense of the city situation, of the basic issues behind the Mau Mau development, a view of court procedures -- inefficacious and tricky, he felt, as evidenced by his gunning. The reader far from the scene cannot help but feel there is irresponsibility underlying this approach, in itself almost unbelievable, but presented with seeming candor and conviction.

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Publisher: Dutton

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1956

Categories: NONFICTION