The Coup

📘 The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou. Colonel Ellellou has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversion - cultural, ideological, and personal - to the United States. But the U.S. keeps creeping into Kush, and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel. Colonel Ellellou tells his own story - always elegantly, and often in the third person - from an undisclosed location in the South of France.