It had all the ingredients of a best-selling thriller - the clandestine activities of mercenaries, an impossibly dare-devil plot to topple the regime of one of the world's most corrupt countries; the 'boy's own' approach by arrogant old public school pupils and the controversy and intrigue from within governmental departments. Add in high-profile figures embroiled in the plot and the far-reaching repercussions and you have what was to become one of...
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