"A sobering reality check and an impressive work of fiction."--Washington Times

"An affecting, chilling historical novel."--New York

"Lurid and delightful, written with wit and real maturity."--Kirkus Reviews

"Genuinely beautiful and disturbing."--Village Voice

"Garrigan is the perfect foil for Amin, whose overwhelming physical presence, peacockish rhetoric and
cold-blooded savagery are so well captured as to make this novel more than a mesmerizing read: it is
also a forceful account of a surrealistic and especially ugly chapter of modern history."--Publishers Weekly

Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre
accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his Maserati, has hit a cow. When Garrigan tends to
Amin, the dictator, obsessed with all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. So begins
a fateful dalliance with the African leader whose Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a
reign of terror.

In The Last King of Scotland, Foden's Amin is as ridiculous as he is abhorrent: a self-proclaimed
cannibal who, at the end of his eight years in power, would be responsible for 300,000 deaths. As Garrigan
awakens to his patient's barbarism--and his own complicity in it--we enter a venturesome meditation on
conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of the human heart.