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Soldier of Fortune: The Deadliest Magazine Ever (with Billy Wayne Davis)
Behind the Bastards
The Conquest of the Rhodesian Military in the 1970s
As the 1970s rolled to an end, Robert Brown continued to send his writers off to little wars around the world. He focused primarily on struggles between communist and anti-communist forces like the fighting in Angola. Brown was canny enough not to solicit mercenaries directly this time but he did allow his readers to place classified ads in the magazines with no restrictions whatsoever. One of these ads caught the eye of a con artist named David Buffkin, a former crew member who wanted to be a mercenary recruiter.
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