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prologue: black beach 3<br />
soldiers immerse his head in freezing water <strong>an</strong>d <strong>the</strong>n rip <strong>the</strong> scabs<br />
<strong>from</strong> his eyes.<br />
This is how Nick begins his 34-year sentence in Black Beach<br />
prison, Africa’s most notorious jail. He was arrested on 8 March<br />
2004 along with fifteen o<strong>the</strong>r men as he tried to overthrow <strong>the</strong><br />
government of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny West Afric<strong>an</strong> country<br />
fabulously rich in oil. But <strong>the</strong>re is just one person missing <strong>from</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> scene. What Nick doesn’t see when he opens his eyes that day<br />
is me. Had all gone according to pl<strong>an</strong>, I could have been lying<br />
next to him: I was supposed to film <strong>the</strong> coup.
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