A review on NPR’s All Things Considered last night called Peter Godwin’s book about Zimbabwe’s brutal dictator, Robert Mugabe, The Fear, “…a gut-wrenching portrait of Mugabe’s enormous political sadism — and the brave, heartbreaking, nearly superhuman resistance to it” and “…as important a book as we can read right now.”

The author was also interviewed on today’s Morning Edition.

The book is currently at #116 (up from #892 yesterday) on Amazon’s sales rankings.

The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe Peter Godwin Retail Price: $26.99 Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Little, Brown and Company – (2011-03-23) ISBN / EAN: 031605173X / 9780316051736

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