Legion of the Lost
Author | : Jaime Salazar |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781101118467 |
ISBN-13 | : 1101118466 |
Rating | : 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The son of underpaid Mexican immigrants, Jaime earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue. But at twenty-three, he was disillusioned with the corporate fast track. So he became an outcast American in a hard-bitten group of recruits-men on the run from their pasts, men without hope: He joined the French Foreign Legion. From the Legion's notoriously brutal training to Salazar's fierce competitiveness, ultimate disillusionment and dramatic desertion, Legion of the Lost is a compelling, firsthand account of today's French Foreign Legion that will dispel myths while adding to the legend of the finest trained army of warriors the world has ever known.