He doesn't hesitate to head his chapter on the Sierra
Leone peace negotiations Peacemaker, although by his own account he was absent from them through illness during the crucial week when agreement was reached.
Here he describes his equally stormy involvement as deputy head of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) department in the arms for Sierra
Leone affair, when a British company supplied weapons to that country's President in contravention of an embargo; his role as single - handed saviour of Ghanaian democracy when deputy high commissioner in Accra, and his participation in
peace negotiations in Togo to end Sierra
Leone's civil war.