num_pages: 8
description: The reluctant personal physician to Idi Amin, Scottish civil servant Nicholas Garrigan, is drawn despite himself to the charismatic but brutal dictator, until a plot against Amin awakens him to the unspeakable horror and cruelty of the regime.
language: English
title: The Last King of Scotland
titlecomplete: The Last King of Scotland
characters: Idi Amin
genres: Historical, Novels, Uganda, War, Africa, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 3982
places: Uganda
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Somerset Maugham Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Blackstone Pub