He was the most wanted man in the world for decades. Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born terrorist, carried out a wave of attacks across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. A ruthless self-proclaimed revolutionary and notorious womanizer, he claimed to fight for the Palestinian cause and communist ideology, but also worked as a mercenary for rogue regimes and organizations. After bursting onto the world stage with the 1975 OPEC siege in Vienna, where he took 60 hostages and killed three people, he managed to evade capture for two decades. Finally arrested in a daring raid in Sudan in 1994, he was brought to justice in France where he is serving three life sentences for his reign of terror. This is a novel about Carlos the Jackal, how the pudgy Caracas schoolboy became the world’s first celebrity terrorist.
Table des matières
Chapter 1: Carlos from Venezuela.
Chapter 2: A Marxist Childhood.
Chapter 3 : Swinging Sixties.
Chapter 4: Vodka, Women and Politics.
Chapter 5: So You Want to be a Revolutionary.
Chapter 6: Biding Time.
Chapter 7: The First Attacks.
Chapter 8: A Bonafide Terrorist
Chapter 9: Radical Allies.
Chapter 10: Things Unravel
Chapter 11: A Fateful Night
Chapter 12: Manhunt
Chapter 13: I Am the Famous Carlos.
Chapter 14: The Odyssey by Plane.
Chapter 15: The Celebrity Terrorist
Chapter 16: Terrorists for Hire.
Chapter 17: The Unwanted Guest
Chapter 18: Of Love and Terror.
Chapter 19: Frozen Out
Chapter 20: On the Inactive List
Chapter 21: No Place to Go.
Chapter 22: Extraordinary Rendition.
Epilogue.
Author’s Note.
References
A propos de l’auteur
Christina Hoag is a former journalist who has had her laptop searched by Colombian guerrillas, phone tapped in Venezuela, was suspected of drug trafficking in Guyana, hid under a car to evade Guatemalan soldiers, and posed as a nun to report from inside a Caracas jail. She has interviewed gang members, bank robbers, thieves and thugs in prisons, shantytowns and slums, not to forget billionaires and presidents, some of whom fall into the previous categories. Now she writes about such characters in her fiction. Christina’s most recent work is Law of the Jungle, a psychological thriller (Better Than Starbucks Press). Her noir crime novel Skin of Tattoos was a finalist for the Silver Falchion Award for suspense, while her novel Girl on the Brink was named one of Suspense Magazine’s best for young adults. She co-authored the nonfiction Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence (Turner Publishing), used as a textbook at University of California Los Angeles, University of Southern California and other academic institutions. Her short stories and essays have won several awards and have been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Lunch Ticket, Shooter, Other Side of Hope and Toasted Cheese.Christina is a former staff writer for the Miami Herald and Associated Press and reported from fourteen countries around Latin America for Time, Business Week, New York Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times of London, Houston Chronicle and other news outlets. A graduate cum laude of Boston University, she won two prizes from the New Jersey Press Association in her newspaper career. Born in New Zealand, Christina grew up as an expat in seven countries, arriving in the United States as a teenager. She now lives in Los Angeles, where she has taught creative writing at a maximum-security prison and to at-risk teen girls. She is a regular speaker at women’s conferences, writing conferences and organizations, book clubs and stores, and libraries. Sign up for her newsletter at https://christinahoag.com.
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