Simon Mann

The British mercenary Simon Mann has been in the news again for his role in organising a coup in the African state of Equatorial Guinea. We'll be following the case with interest on this blog: in part because Death Inc is about a gang of mercenaries: and, probably more importantly, because its sequal is going to be set in an African state, although one that's quite a bit further south than Equatorial Guinea. I'll get into the details later on, but it strikes me that Mann is the last of the old-school mercenaries, a daring, but amateur freelancer. Since then, they've morphed into Private Military Corporations, and tried to make themselves respectable.