How Danny Rook left home, acquired a history, and failed to stop Mao getting the H-bomb
Click thru to Amazon Danny Rook is only 17, rather shy and he has somehow arrived in the Congo as a mercenary. Nor is he alone. Cuba, China, Russia - they all want a hand in the post-colonial re-domination of Africa. Naturally, the USA has a different outcome in mind.
When Danny's training exercise turns nasty and then an RAF aircraft suffers a heavy landing nearby with something even more terrible in its bomb bay, it is China that seems to hold all the aces.
As the song goes - "It's the same the whole world over". With blind incompetence at the highest level of government, when nobody really knows what the hell is going on, if the little people at ground level want to stay alive, it's
...And this is also a 'Secret History' of how Chairman Mao got
The Bomb.
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