Illustration Credits

Dramatis Personae

Basil Zaharoff: from H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen, Merchants of Death (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934); Marcel Dassault: copyright © Richard Melloul/Sygma/Corbis; Prince Bandar: copyright © Alexander Natruskin/Reuters/Corbis; Richard Evans: copyright © Nicolas Asfouri/Getty Images; Prince Turki: copyright © Kamal Mustafa/epa/Corbis; Wafic Said: copyright © Topham/PA, 2002; Joe der Hovsepian: photograph by courtesy of Joe der Hovsepian; Leonid Menin: copyright © AFP/Getty Images; Charles Taylor: copyright © Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images; Viktor Bout: copyright © Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images; Monzer Al Kassar: copyright © AFP/Getty Images; Helen Garlick: photograph reproduced with the permission of Helen Garlick; Robert Wardle: photograph by courtesy of Robert Wardle, from the collection of Robert Wardle; Richard Alderman: copyright © Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images; Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki: copyright © Guy Tillum/Reuters/Corbis; The Shaiks: copyright © Beeld/Gallo Images/Getty Images; John Bredenkamp: copyright © Desmond Kwande/AFP/Getty Images; Andrew Chenge: copyright © Edwin Mjwahuzi; Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly: copyright © Clemens Fabry; John Murtha: copyright © Larry Downing/Reuters/Corbis; Charlie Wilson: copyright © Fred Prouser/Reuters/Corbis; Chuck Spinney: photograph by courtesy of Chuck Spinney; Yoshio Kodama: copyright © Bettmann/Corbis; Adnan Khashoggi: copyright © Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images; Randy Cunningham: Mike Blake/Reuters/Corbis; Erison Durdaj: reproduced with the kind permission of Feruzan Durdaj; Manucher Ghorbanifar: copyright © Alex Majoli/Magnum Photos; Dale Stoffel: from the collection of David J. Stoffel; Jean-Christophe Mitterrand: copyright © Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images; Arcadi Gaydamak: copyright © Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images; Pierre Falcone: copyright © Stéphane Ruet/Sygma/Corbis.

Section titles

I: Basil Zaharoff: from H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen, Merchants of Death (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934); II: Joe der Hovsepian: photograph by courtesy of Joe der Hovsepian; III: Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki: copyright © Guy Tillum/Reuters/Corbis; IV: C-5 crash: photograph by courtesy of Lou Angeli, copyright © Lou Angeli, 2006; V: Open-air arms market, Somalia: copyright © Hannah Allam/MCT via Getty Images. VI: Erison’s bicycle: reproduced with the kind permission of Feruzan Durdaj and Ardian Klosi.

Figures

Figure 3 image of Dr Idrissa Rashidi: copyright © Edwin Mjwahuzi. Figures 7 and 8 by Mia Allers of Winter Design.