Warrior: Frank Sturgis---The CIA's #1 Assassin-Spy, Who Nearly Killed Castro But Was Ambushed by Watergate

by Jim Hunt, Bob Risch

Overview

The press called him a "real-life James Bond."

Fidel Castro called him "the most dangerous CIA agent."

History remembers him as a Watergate burglar, yet the Watergate break-in was his least perilous mission.

Frank Sturgis—using more than thirty aliases and code names—trained guerilla armies in twelve countries on three continents and spearheaded assassination plots to overthrow foreign governments including those of Cuba, Panama, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.

Warrior follows the shocking, often unbelievable adventures of Sturgis, brought to life by his nephew, Jim Hunt, and his cowriter, Bob Risch. Also included are never-before-seen personal photos of Sturgis and his compatriots.

Frank Sturgis was well-versed in a life of shadows: familiar to world leaders and underground kingpins, to spies and couterspies...Warrior is his story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765328649
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/19/2012
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	526,234
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

ROBERT RISCH grew up in Cincinnati and moved to Boston, where he practiced law for forty years. He and coauthor Jim Hunt have known each other since the 1960s, when they recorded songs for Columbia Records. Risch has published music, poetry, history books, and literary articles. He and his wife, Nancy, share their time between Boston and Florida's west coast. They have five grown children spread throughout New England.

JIM HUNT is a trial attorney and nephew of the late Frank Sturgis. During his thirty-five–year legal career he has handled many complex civil cases and major felonies. For the last twenty-five years he has been an Adjunct Professor, teaching Law and Psychiatry, at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Preface 11

Prologue 15

1 From Priest To Patriot 19

2 A Spy Is Born 30

3 The Cuban Revolution 35

4 Anti-Communist 46

5 Anti-Castro 64

6 The Bay of Pigs 82

7 Missiles, Missions, and the Sword 94

8 Watergate-The Burglary 111

9 Watergate-Law and Disorder 150

10 The Assassination of a President 210

11 Angola 247

12 It Was Always About Cuba 264

13 Uncle Frank 278

Cast of Characters 301

Frank Sturgis Time Line 311

Notes 315

Index 325

Editorial Reviews

If you like action-packed adventure, here it is. If you can't wait for the next big espionage thriller, wait no more. Warrior is the book you should read. It's as if John LeCarre meets Brad Thor in this fast moving story about good guys and bad guys, gray areas and green jungles, and the whole amazing sweep of America's Cold War history. And—get this—it's not a novel. It's all true. You won't believe what you're reading, and you won't be able to stop, either.” —William Martin, New York Times bestselling author of City of Dreams and Annapolis

“There actually are James-Bond-bigger-than-life-characters in the real world. Not many, but Frank Sturgis fits the bill perfectly. WWII Marine hero, CIA operative, Watergate burglar, arms runner to Angola, this guy could and did do everything.... Warrior reads like a top shelf action-adventure novel, only this story is the real deal.” —David Hagberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Cabal

“Guadalcanal hero, Cuban revolutionary, Castro crony then Castro enemy, Watergate burglar, gunrunner—Frank Sturgis had a hand in almost every mysterious western hemisphere event over the last half of the twentieth century. Warrior is not just a fascinating story of a unique man, it's an eye-opener.” —Barbara D'Amato, Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author of Foolproof

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