AustLit

'Greedy Lords, Dubious heroes, wicked relations and innocents in peril today s world sounds like a grim fairytale. Travelling along the infamous Axis of Evil led to "Tony Wheeler s Bad Lands"– now he s going deeper into the world s darkest corners to explore a rogue s gallery of troubled nations. Every country has its problems, but some problems seem so vexed, so intractable, so absurd, you can only shake your head. Tony Wheeler trains his well-travelled eyes on some of these places and attempts to understand how things got so messed up. Along the way he gets stoned (with the thrown variety) in Palestine, scores a speeding ticket in Zimbabwe, gets arrested for photographing a bar in the Congo, and visits Osama bin Laden s Abbottabad in Pakistan. Join Tony and find out if there s a happily-ever-after in these takes from the dark side.' (Publisher's blurb)