'The Price of Duty' by Ebrima Ismaila Chongan, the last Commander of the Gambia National Gendarmerie before it was amalgamated into the Gambia Police Force. In this book Chongan talks of his attempts to avert the unfolding coup, his betrayal by trusted colleagues, arrest, imprisonment, torture at the infamous Mile II Prisons, and his subsequent exile; which is an ironic family legacy. Chongan's story is at the same time melancholic and humorous, but always inspiring. It reflects an indomitable will to survive against great odds.