Code Peking Duck (Max Claro)

West German pacifist Michael Müller ends up as a GI in the U.S. Army after a wild cross-country odyssey through America, the land of his dreams. Now Michael Miller, he's a medic in Vietnam. Shaken by combat's horrors, Miller decides to desert. Eluding the authorities halfway around the world, he returns to the United States. To avoid prison for desertion, Miller pledges to smuggle defectors and dissidents from hostile countries for the CIA. After thrilling operations in the Eastern Bloc and the Middle East, he faces the ultimate challenge: rescuing 141 German civilians from the chaos of revolutionary Iran.An incredible story-based on true events.

Max Claro learned and practiced more than ten professions, garnering experience in all of them. Among other occupations, he has worked as a postman, sleeping-car conductor, nurse, paramedic, journalist, and helicopter pilot. In the 1970s and 1980s, Claro worked for the CIA and the German Foreign Intelligence Service in the former Eastern Bloc countries as well as in the Middle East and Central America, generally using one of his occupations to go undercover.

Buch (Paperback), Englisch, 360 Seiten