Mixing real people and events with fictional Cold War–era espionage, Barly Baruti and Thierry Bellefroid’s Chaos in Kinshasa is a lively graphic thriller that uses the “Rumble in the Jungle”—the famed 1974 Muhammad Ali–George Foreman heavyweight boxing title bout—and the vividly rendered capital city of Kinshasa as its backdrop and setting. Ernest, a small-time Harlem street hustler with a lot of enemies, wins a ticket to see the Ali–Foreman clash and heads to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to see the fight and bask in his African heritage. But after meeting Blanche, a beautiful Zairian woman with her own secrets, he unknowingly finds himself in the midst of a conspiracy to overthrow Mobuto Sese Seko, Zaire’s brutal dictator-president. In this nine-page excerpt, Mobuto meets with a double-dealing Belgian spy, Ernest meets Blanche and a scheming Kinshasa cab driver, and the swaggering Ali boasts, obsessed with regaining the heavyweight title from Foreman. Chaos in Kinshasa by Barly Baruti and Thierry Bellefroid is out now from Catalyst Press.