Drums Along the Congo, 1993, Houghton Mifflin.
A ripping yarn told by one of that happy band of brothers--most of them Brits--who risk their necks in the pursuit of the sublimely irrelevant...NY Times
Editor's pick: top Books of the year, Hartford Courant, SF Chronicle, San Diego Union, NY Times, Boston Globe; Providence Journal
This book is step two in Nugent's trip toward the New American mind. It is funny and it is deep...George WS Trow
High octane travel writing at its best...Hartford Courant
Great work. I loved every page...Boston Globe
A marvelous book...much zippier and more amusing than Redmund O'Hanlon's No Mercy...It also came out four years earlier than O'Hanlon's. Nugent is the clear winner and better writer...Wall Street Journal
Delightful..Seattle Times
CRITICS CORNER......A FEW REVIEWS
NY TIMES...ALEXANDER FRATER; JULY 4, 1993
LA TIMES...JONATHAN KIRSCH; JUNE 30, 1993
ATLANTIC MAGAZINE...BARBARA WALRAFF; NOVEMBER,1994
NY NEWSDAY...JULY 18, 1993
BOSTON GLOBE...RICHARD CARPENTER; AUGUST 1, 1993
PROVIDENCE JOURNAL...DAVID DESJARDINS; AUGUST 15, 1993
HARTFORD COURANT...STEVE SILK; AUGUST 15, 1993
KIRKUS REVIWS...APRIL 15, 1993
VIRGINIA PILOT...BILL RUEHLMAN; SEPTEMBER 5, 1993
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS...LONNIE WILLIS, JANUARY, 1994