This isn’t just a map—it’s a lifeline, a death trap & a power play. In AFRICAN HUSTLE, a single route through Sudan can change the balance of a Cold War, or bury a man alive. Smuggling isn’t about greed. It’s about survival in a rigged game.

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Africa’s diamonds don’t glitter—they bleed. In 1973, smuggling routes crossed borders, loyalties, and lives. A briefcase full of stones could topple governments—or buy one.

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Martin thought he could hustle Africa like he hustled Philly. But this place changes the rules—and the cost of losing is a bullet or a soul.

What’s your line? What would make you cross it?

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Major Ian Smythe plays chess with countries. An MI6 man in linen suits and soft-spoken threats. He doesn’t pull triggers—he moves pieces.

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Kampala after dark was a different city. Smoke from matoke fires, headlights sweeping empty roads, and whispers from bars where spies and hustlers drank side by side.

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By mid-1973, Uganda’s Indian population—80,000 strong—had been expelled. Idi Amin blamed them for everything. They lost businesses, homes, lives. And Uganda lost its middle class.

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I’ve seen men shot for speaking the wrong language at a checkpoint. I’ve drunk tea with warlords. AFRICAN HUSTLE isn’t imagined—it’s remembered.

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Esther Mapende fled Sudan with nothing but a bag of sugar, a rosary, and a fire in her eyes.

In AFRICAN HUSTLE, she’s more than a love interest—she’s the conscience Martin Fine never asked for.

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I’ve seen men shot for speaking the wrong language at a checkpoint. I’ve drunk tea with warlords. AFRICAN HUSTLE isn’t imagined—it’s remembered.

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Esther Mapende fled Sudan with nothing but a bag of sugar, a rosary, and a fire in her eyes.

In my new novel, AFRICAN HUSTLE, she’s more than a love interest—she’s the conscience Martin Fine never asked for.

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If you stumbled on $6 million in diamonds—while the country burned—would you try to run, or try to help?

Let’s be honest. I want to hear your answer.

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"Martin's leg felt damp… a scarlet-tinged, gray-green piece of brain was dangling from his sock."

Welcome to Entebbe. This isn’t the Africa of safari brochures.

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1973: MI6 armed rebels in Sudan. CIA backed Idi Amin. In Africa, the Cold War didn’t freeze—it burned. Every diamond was a bullet. Every bribe, a proxy war.

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If you have to pay off a border guard to save a refugee, is it corruption—or survival? In Amin’s Uganda, the line between criminal and hero was drawn in blood and blurred by fear.

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Martin Fine came to Africa chasing diamonds. What he found was blood, betrayal—and a girl who made him question everything. If you’ve ever tried to outrun your past, you’ll know him.

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Kampala, 1973. Dust in the air, Nile beer sweating in the heat, radio static from Congo drifting through market stalls. You could buy a Rolex watch, a girl, or a British degree—if you knew where to look.

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1973 Uganda: smoke, sweat, fear. Idi Amin ruled with charm and a gun—sometimes both. Thousands vanished, markets bustled, life went on.

In AFRICAN HUSTLE, Martin Fine breathes that tension between ordinary & unspeakable.

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Idi Amin seized power in Uganda in 1971 with Britain’s blessing—and by 1973, he’d murdered tens of thousands. Power doesn’t always roar in—it smiles, shakes hands, and cleans house.

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The first Martin Fine novel is coming soon ...