Newly arrived in Uganda in the Seventies, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician of Idi Amin, having won his gratitude by removing a piece of Lego from the nose of his sick son. Gradually, the extent of Amin's megalomania and the fearful atrocities he is perpetrating on the innocent become apparent to Nicholas, but he is trapped by the tyrant's seductive charisma. Forbes Masson's narration is brilliant. Amin's bombastic utterances to his people and his tirades against perceived enemies are dramatically presented, but without caricature, and Masson also captures his exuberant energy and vulnerability, which make Nicholas's predicament more understandable.


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