I Am the Famous Carlos
The Story of the Jackal, the World’s First Celebrity Terrorist
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I Am the Famous Carlos
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Narrated by:
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Madeleine Brolly
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By:
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Christina Hoag
He was the most wanted man in the world for decades. Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born terrorist, carried out a wave of attacks across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. A ruthless self-proclaimed revolutionary, he claimed to fight for the Palestinian cause and communist ideology, but also worked as a mercenary for rogue regimes and organizations.
After bursting onto the world stage with the 1975 OPEC siege in Vienna, where he took 60 hostages and killed three people, he managed to evade capture for two decades. Finally arrested in a daring raid in Sudan in 1994, he was brought to justice in France where he is serving three life sentences for his reign of terror. This is the riveting story of how a pudgy schoolboy became the world’s first celebrity terrorist.
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"A colorful and gripping portrait of a notorious terrorist." - Kirkus Reviews.