Kahawa — Donald E. Westlake

The Word
KAHAWA
is Swahili for Coffee,
In English it means...

Adventure novels don't have to be rigorously written in order to be enjoyable. But when Donald E. Westlake brings his considerable talents to bear on the form, it is astonishing how good the genre can be. KAHAWA about a (conspiracy) to rip off a trainload of Idi Amin's coffee. The story is intricate with intelligence and at the same time is masterfully economical. Westlake throws out meaty insights about Africa, about character, about love in the same way lesser writers fall back upon cliche ...KAHAWA is marvelous."
--Playboy Magazine