Heidi Holland’s penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psychobiography of a man whose once brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe & cast shame on the African continent. Holland`s tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe, the freedom fighter, & ends in a searching interview with Zimbabwe`s president more than 30 years later. The author charts Mugabe`s gradual self-destruction, & uncovers some of the most respectable international players in the Zimbabwe tragedy. Probing the mystery of Africa`s loyalty to one of its worst dictators, Holland explores the contradictions that cloud the life of the man who had once embodied a continent`s promise.