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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20080427
Author:CHRISTIAN HOUSE

'Boys' Own' meets Dave Eggers in this dizzying, moustachioed yarn

Pandora in the Congo By Albert Sanchez Pinoltrs Mara Faye Lethem Canongate Pounds 14.99

It's no surprise that in these confused metro-sexual times a resistant force should be celebrating the kind of manly yarns mastered by Victorian and Edwardian popular novelists. The fatalistic trajectories of military endeavours and grand expeditions have gripped a new brace of writers. The late, lamented George MacDonald Fraser may have headed off to the great barracks in the sky but plenty, from Mark Gatiss to James Delingpole, have picked ...

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