I Am Soldier of Fortune: Dancing with Devils by Robert K.Brown (Out of Print New)
Robert K. Brown, former Green Beret, after a bizarremilitary career that succeeded in getting him kicked out of Special Forces notonce but twice, and completing the Command and General Staff College without asecurity clearance, while meantime being wounded in Nam, finally found his truecalling as a publisher.
Thirty-eight years ago he launched an upstart magazine from his basement calledSoldier of Fortune, which pushed the bounds of journalism to its limits withhis untamed brand of reportinga camera in one hand, a gun in the other, andsoon thereafter he discovered that hed established a worldwide community. Hiswildly popular, notorious magazine became an icon for action-seekers in theU.S. and around the world.
In this long-awaited book, Brown tells his own story, taking the readers intocombat zones where he and his daring combat journalists, or fearless dogs ofwar, trotted across the globe. His rogue warrior journalists embeddedthemselves with anti-Communist guerillas or freedom fighters, often trainingand fighting with rebels against oppressive regimes. In their revolutionaryjournalistic style, they created the action and then wrote about it. Generalsand leaders of exotic armies welcomed the SOF visitors and led them or allowedthem to tread into unchartered territory.
Brown himself accompanied teams to work and fight with the Rhodesians; theAfghans during the Afghan-Russo war, Christian Phalange in Lebanon; ethnicminority Karens in Burma; the ethnic tribes fighting the Communist governmentof Laos; the army of El Salvador; and the armed forces of struggling Croatia.Brown sent medical teams, often into the jaws of danger, to Burma, Guatemala,the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador and Nicaragua, andalso into Peru after a devastating earthquake.
In short, the Soldiers of Fortune went where even the U.S. government fearedto tread, and they did it with gallant style, not fearing risk but welcomingthe challenge, as long as they felt the cause was right and needed to bereported. In this book the exploits of Brown and his veteran teams are revealedfor the first time in all their gonzo glory, even as the U.S. military, public,and polite diplomatic society sometimes shunned their endeavors.
This is the story of Robert Browns dogged quest, in journalism as well aswarfare, to Slay Dragons, do noble deeds and never, never give up.
