Code Peking Duck

West German pacifist Michael Müller ends up as a GI in the U.S. Army after a wild cross-country odyssey through America, the land of his dreams. Now Michael Miller, he's a medic in Vietnam. Shaken by combat's horrors, Miller decides to desert. Eluding the authorities halfway around the world, he returns to the United States. To avoid prison for desertion, Miller pledges to smuggle defectors and dissidents from hostile countries for the CIA. After thrilling operations in the Eastern Bloc and the Middle East, he faces the ultimate challenge: rescuing 141 German civilians from the chaos of revolutionary Iran. An incredible storybased on true events.

Autorentext
Max Claro learned and practiced more than ten professions, garnering experience in all of them. Among other occupations, he has worked as a postman, sleeping-car conductor, nurse, paramedic, journalist, and helicopter pilot. In the 1970s and 1980s, Claro worked for the CIA and the German Foreign Intelligence Service in the former Eastern Bloc countries as well as in the Middle East and Central America, generally using one of his occupations to go undercover.

Leseprobe
Yet I had passed the exam, and with it, I obtained the official license to lie, cheat, steal, and kill. Only one thing, under any circumstances, was strictly forbidden: getting caught! If that happened, the license I had labored so mightily to earn would be forfeited immediately, and every agency would disavow any knowledge of my missionor of me. CIA Director Richard Helms made a brief farewell speech ... © HELLER VERLAG / HELLER PUBLISHING Co.

Inhalt
Contents Prologue 1. Motherly Love 2. Uncle Sam Wants You! 3. The Longest Day 4. An Unwilling Agent 5. A Cry for Helpfrom Teheran 6. Shots Fired in Istanbul 7. Death in the Sleeping Car 8. Code Peking Duck 9. The Oil Minister 10. German Hostages in Bushehr 11. All Power to the People! 12. The Biggest Coup 13. How Everything Turned Out Glossary