A failed coup, Margaret Thatcher's son, and mercenaries who forgot how to mercenary.
Dramatisation of the abortive real-life attempt by Simon Mann to organise a coup to take over Equatorial Guinea in 2004. The case achieved notoriety because one of the financial backers of the project was Sir Mark Thatcher, son of British ex-PM 'Margaret Thatcher'.
Acting
Jared Harris plays deluded confidence like nobody's business.
Writing
Dialogue that captures 'men who've read too many Frederick Forsyth novels.'
Director
Simon Cellan Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Thatcher claimed he thought he was funding an air ambulance service, which remains one of history's least believable alibis.
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