Heart of Darkness

I doubt I have any gift for critiquing books, but I'd like to recommend King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild about the reign of sadism and economic rape of the Belgian Congo, under the very conscious leadership of King Leopold II; a monster to hold his head high amongst later and more famous examples of the diabolic type. An excellent book which will send me back to re-read Conrad's Heart of Darkness, who himself figures in Hochschild's work.