Describes the 2011 defeat of Libya's dictator Muammar Gadaffi by his own people, tracing the story of Gadaffi's regime from its early days of popular appeal to the fear and corruption of its final years from the perspectives of five Libyan rebels.

Includes maps of: Libya, Featuring Major Towns, Significant Places in the 2011 Revolution, and Principal Roads. Published in Penguin Books with a new epilogue 2013. Originally published in 2012.

Prologue -- The people demand the fall of the regime -- The strange world of Muammar Gadaffi -- Subversives and stray dogs -- Massacre at Abu Salim -- That mad dog of the Middle East -- King of kings of Africa -- Sons and daughters -- Spies, diplomats and drones -- The battle for Tripoli -- After the revolution -- Epilogue.