Dangerous Company: Inside the World's Hottest Trouble Spots with a Pulitzer Prize-Winning War Correspondent

by William Tuohy

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688067948
• ISBN13: 9780688067946
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What did we ever do before wars?

William Tuohy uses this, his first book, to introduce us to the atrocities of war in various areas of the world. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in 1968. Throughout his journalist career, he was involved with presidents of USA, movie stars, and politicians plus the terrorists in the Mid East.He was held hostage in Jordon, Iran, and tells of the upheaval in Iran in December, 1978. Now there is even worse upheaval there and he was lucky the militants then did not behead their prisoners and act like savages, as they do in 2004.It is now seventeen years since he had this book published, but the world is still in turmoil in the same places. You'd think the 'fighters' would get tired of the same old thing and 'grow up a bit.' He found himself in 'no-man's-land in Syria during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He had even more adventures than the famed journalist, Thomas, who was the first American allowed into Tibet and broadcast from there -- only to have a fall from a horse and break his leg on the way out of that forbidden territory. I know of a recent journey there by a friend of Patch Adams. My, how times have changed.In Belfast, got caught between the police and rioters, reminding me of Sam Houston, a former Governor of the great state of Tennessee, who was caught in the warfare with Santa Anna in Texas when his skittish horse would not get out of the firing range -- subsequently he was shot in the ankle.Tuochy tells of Viet Nam and the Green Berets, reminding us of the brave men who tried valiantly to represent the U.S. in Viet Nam and many died mercilessly and needlessly. We should never have been there in the first place. Just as we have stayed in Iran far past the time needed, and our Americans are being slaughtered for no reason.Since this book, he has written THE BRAVEST MAN, LOVE JOURNEY INTO AMERICA, SPRING COMES CALLING showing his expertise in the art of newspapers and national magazines. He enjoyed television to a point and was fascinated by the 'stars' and directors, and the dolce vita scene (whatever that is). According to the book jacket, "Tuochy presents a fascinating portrait of a troubled world and the dangerous company who inhabit it." That, he did!