{"product_id":"bayou-of-pigs-9781443427647","title":"Bayou of Pigs","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Organized Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Inside Flap\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a true story about an idyllic tropical island and the mercenaries who set out to steal if for profit and adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from the United States and Canada set off on a preposterous mission: invade an impoverished Caribbean country, overthrow its government in a coup d' tat, install a puppet prime minister, and transform it into a crooks' paradise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir leader was a Texas soldier-of-fortune type named Mike Perdue. His lieutenant was a Canadian Nazi named Wolfgang Droege. Their destination: Dominica.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor two years they recruited fighting men, wooed investors, stockpiled weapons and forged links with the mob, leftist revolutionaries and militant Rastafarians. They called their invasion Operation Red Dog. They were going to make millions. People were going to die. An entire nation was going to suffer. All that stood in their way were two federal agents from New Orleans on the biggest cast of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the Caribbean, Canada and the American South at the beginning of the end of the Cold War, and based on hundreds of pages of declassified US government documents, as well as exclusive interviews with those involved, \"Bayou of Pigs\" tells a remarkable tale of foreign military intervention, revolutionary politics, greed, treachery, stupidity, deceit and one of the most outlandish criminal stunts ever conceived: the theft of a nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45410914074775,"sku":"9781443427647","price":1094.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781443427647.webp?v=1767105987","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bayou-of-pigs-9781443427647","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}