Mark Thomas is one of the UKs most effective & best-known political activists as well as being a highly successful st&-up comedian. His show The Mark Thomas Product" ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel Four. Amazingly this is his first book. " As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela" is a deeply funny deeply disturbing account of Marks rampage through the arms trade. Under a fairly flimsy disguise & with the use of some worryingly poor accents Mark set off on a journey of discovery in the company of arms dealers torture victims politicians cops crusties & geeks. The result is a shockingly entertaining read. Embedded within the sharpness of his humour is the truth of an industry fraught with loopholes complacency & greed; that allows corrupt regimes to kill maim & displace but whose deals are often subsidised by the British taxpayer. Hard-hitting laugh-out-loud funny & extremely unsettling " As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela" is never anything less than compulsive."