"A young man travels overland from London to Nairobi in a truck with a group of squabbling, treacherous cast-offs of Thatcher's Britain, including privately educated schoolgirls, a predatory market gardener, a former torturer from the British Army, a locksmith claiming to be a UFO-abductee, three conniving nurses and a prim (but shady) quantity surveyor." "It's a tale of an innocent young man far out of his depth, desperately seeking compassion and hope amidst encounters with desert nomads, witchdoctors, drug runners, lion-men, soldiers, missionaries, pygmies and captives." "As usual with Manchan Magan's travelogues, Truck Fever is a non-stop rollercoaster of adventure, anecdote and fresh observations about the nature of Africa and what is means to a traveller passing through. Readers will be surprised, enticed and occasionally horrified by who and what we have the capacity to be."--BOOK JACKET.