Warrior
Book description
The press called him a "real-life James Bond."
Fidel Castro called him "the most dangerous CIA agent."
History remembers him as a Watergate burglar, yet the Watergate break-in was his least perilous mission.
Frank Sturgis―using more than thirty aliases and code names―trained guerilla armies in twelve countries on three continents…
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1 author picked Warrior as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
My first pick was the story of Marita Lorenz who tried to kill Fidel Castro. This book is the story of the man who gave her that assignment. Frank Sturgis struggled side-by-side with Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution only to turn against him when he realized that Castro had become a communist. Then Sturgis joined forces with the American Mafia as well as with the CIA. He made several attempts to assassinate Castro during several decades as well as carried out assignments for the Mafia and the CIA in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Africa. We know he…
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