An atypical new novel by the great Mario Vargas Llosa rehabilitates Roger Casement: an Irishman who exposed shocking abuses in the rubber trade in Congo and Amazonia (as Consul for Great Britain), was knighted for it, but soon after was shamed and executed, for asking the Kaiser to arm Irish patriots against England in WWI.

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