German born mercenary. Fought in Vietnam and Algeria as part of the French Foreign Legion. Imprisoned for membership in the anti-de Gaulle Secret Army Organization (OAS). Later fought in for Biafra in the Nigerian Civil War and for the Anyanya in the Sudanese Civil War.
This is a work of wishful thinking and confabulation. At best it is a middling novel, no more. No reliance whatsoever should be placed on the veracity of its contents, much of which has been repudiated by Steiner himself in recent years.