Jaime Salazar was a promising new recruit in a multinational engineering company in Chicago. A successful life, it seemed, was mapped out in front of him. Soon, though, the trappings of that success began to lose their appeal. The life of a yuppy was not for him. Spurred into action by the end of a relationship, Salazar decided to set out on what seemed to be the ultimate adventure- to join the French Foreign Legion. Getting into the Legion was almost as difficult as getting out. After a seemingly endless period of selection procedures (for which read backbreaking labour, constant abuse and very little sleep) he sat before a recruitment officer for two entire days, telling his life story. Only then was he deemed fit to undergo the Legion's brutal basic instruction course. Routine beatings, 15-kilometer runs, push-ups, mindless chores, forced marches and one scoop of ravioli a day were just some of the joys of daily life during the next month of training at a camp known as the Farm in the foothills of the Pyranees. The Legion's old-fashioned ways of transforming a motley crew of misfits, criminals and outcasts into highly efficient killing machines are barely tempered by the dema
- ISBN10 1101113332
- ISBN13 9781101113332
- Publish Date 1 August 2006 (first published 2 August 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Berkley Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 256
- Language English