This doesn't sound like favourite bed-time reading, but you'd be surprised. Kleveman is the best kind of investigative journalist, knowledgeable, balanced, self-effacing. He mixes a strong sense of place with inside information - he spoke to all the right people and read all the relevant literature - and recounts it all with clarity and humanity, from political power struggles to the shenanigans of competing oil companies, to the eccentricities of Turkmenistan's crazy president. Fascinating, if decidedly alarming!
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 22 February 2004 ) |
