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Last Flight From Pemba
By Barry John Cohen
What are you willing to leave behind, and what are you prepared to expose?
Northern Mozambique is burning, and Pemba has become the last way out for civilians, contractors and foreign operatives.
Barry John Cohen9 April 2026409 pagesEnglish
The story
Inside Last Flight From Pemba.
- Geopolitical thriller
- Conflict
- Africa
Northern Mozambique is burning.
Al Shabaab insurgents sweep through Cabo Delgado, while Pemba becomes a final refuge for civilians, contractors, and foreign operatives desperate to escape.
The story involves hidden networks, blood diamonds, political interests, natural gas wealth, corporate ambition, diplomatic maneuvering, survival, loyalty and truth.
As insurgents advance and foreign interests maneuver behind diplomatic language, those aboard the last flight from Pemba must decide what they are willing to leave behind and what they are prepared to expose.
Themes & reading experience
What the book is about, beneath the plot.
Drawn from the book itself, not from marketing copy.
01
Conflict in Cabo Delgado
An insurgency advancing while a port city becomes a final refuge.
02
Resource politics
Blood diamonds, natural gas wealth and corporate ambition in the same frame.
03
Diplomatic maneuvering
Foreign interests working behind careful official language.
04
Loyalty and survival
Civilians, contractors and operatives with very different reasons to get out.
05
Truth and exposure
The decision about what to reveal, and what it will cost.
The reading experience
The thriller is built on a contemporary conflict setting rather than an invented country.
It follows several kinds of outsider at once: civilians, contractors and foreign operatives.
The pressure comes as much from resource and diplomatic interests as from the advancing front line.
Shelves this title sits on
- Geopolitical thrillers
- Conflict fiction
- Africa
- Political thrillers
- Contemporary suspense
Book details
The publication record.
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- Title
- Last Flight From Pemba
- Author
- Barry John Cohen
- Publisher
- Barry John Cohen
- Publication date
- 9 April 2026
- Language
- English
- Print length
- 409 pages
- ISBN-13
- 978-1048312119
- ASIN
- B0GGXJQV7N
- Genre
- Conflict / Geopolitical Thriller
- Availability
- Available now as a Kindle edition
Formats
- Kindle edition409 pages
- Additional formatsFurther editions to be confirmed
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