I admire Bob's penchant for seeking trouble - and when he finds it - his rush to the sound of gunfire. I love his unabashed defense of our 2nd Amendment, his relentless disdain for commies and his steadfast support for our fellow Vietnam vets. KOKALISīob Brown is a "Mature Audiences Only" kind of guy, and so is this gripping book. ĪPPENDIX A: MY WAR IN EL SALVADOR BY PETER G. AND ALMOST GETTING WHACKED MYSELFħ: HOW I WAS TO BECOME DEFENSE MINISTER OF A NEW NATIONġ0: RHODESIA: THE LAND OF MERCS AND HIRED GUNSġ1: CONS, PSYCHICS AND AN ABORTED SEARCH FOR POWSġ6: SOF BLASTS THE BALLOON WITH THE ROYAL THAI AIR FORCEġ7: SAY GOODBYE, COMRADE JAWS: SOF BREAKS BREAD WITH THE KGBġ8: AFGHANISTAN, ROUND ONE: TRUMPING THE CIAĢ0: SOLDIER OF FORTUNE JIHAD: WE ATTACK A RUSSIAN FORTĢ1: SOF NEVER MISSES A WAR: MISSION TO LEBANONĢ5: SOF TRIES BRIBERY OR HOW I NEVER GOT RICHģ0: ON THE SHARP EDGE WITH BOSNIA’S COUNTER-SNIPERSģ2: HELL ON THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL: THE HUNT FOR AN EXTINCT COWĬONCLUSION: AS LONG AS TYRANTS AND LIBERALS EXIST AND I AM STILL KICKING. THE BEGINNING OF THE ROAD (TO PERDITION?)Ĥ: WANDERING THROUGH THE ARMY ANGLING FOR NAMĥ: A-TEAM ADVENTURES: WHACKING MR. This is the story of Robert Brown’s dogged quest, in journalism as well as warfare, to “Slay Dragons, do noble deeds and never, never give up.”ġ: I SCHEME TO BECOME A TOP GUN PILOT, A HARD-CHARGING MARINE, A SPECIAL AGENT OR. military, public, and polite diplomatic society sometimes shunned their endeavors. In this book the exploits of Brown and his veteran teams are revealed for the first time in all their gonzo glory, even as the U.S. government feared to tread, and they did it with gallant style, not fearing risk but welcoming the challenge, as long as they felt the cause was right and needed to be reported. In short, the “Soldiers of Fortune” went where even the U.S. Brown sent medical teams, often into the jaws of danger, to Burma, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador and Nicaragua, and also into Peru after a devastating earthquake. Generals and leaders of exotic armies welcomed the SOF visitors and led them or allowed them to tread into unchartered territory.īrown himself accompanied teams to work and fight with the Rhodesians the Afghans during the Afghan-Russo war, Christian Phalange in Lebanon ethnic minority Karens in Burma the ethnic tribes fighting the Communist government of Laos the army of El Salvador and the armed forces of struggling Croatia.
In their revolutionary journalistic style, they created the action and then wrote about it. His rogue warrior journalists embedded themselves with anti-Communist guerillas or freedom fighters, often training and fighting with rebels against oppressive regimes.
In this long-awaited book, Brown tells his own story, taking the readers into combat zones where he and his daring combat journalists, or fearless “dogs of war,” trotted across the globe. His wildly popular, notorious magazine became an icon for action-seekers in the U.S. Thirty-eight years ago he launched an upstart magazine from his basement called Soldier of Fortune, which pushed the bounds of journalism to its limits with his untamed brand of reporting-a camera in one hand, a gun in the other, and soon thereafter he discovered that he’d established a worldwide community.
Brown, former Green Beret, after a bizarre military career that succeeded in getting him kicked out of Special Forces not once but twice, and completing the Command and General Staff College without a security clearance, while meantime being wounded in Nam, finally found his true calling as a publisher.
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