Download or read book The Catastrophist written by Ronan Bennett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo only to be near his lover, an idealistic journalist, novelist James Gillespie becomes caught up in the terror, violence, and corruption that marks that country's slide into civil war in the early 1960s. Reprint.