This is a novel - for only in this form can the incredible story of CARLOS be told...

Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow, the training ground for Marxist revolutionary leaders of all countries: it turned out the most dedicated 'freedom fighters' in the world - and one year it produced two men of shattering ability... two men who between them were capable of destroying the peace of the western democracies. One of these was Carlos - also known as the Jackal: charming, ruthless, the man behind nearly every terrorist outrage of recent years... The other was a man so uncannily like him in appearance and behaviour that they might have been twins...

So began an incredible double-act that baffled police and security services of the west... allowing the same face to be seen in two places at once... defeating all attempts at surveillance... Two men with one face, one aim, one fanatical dedication to international terrorism... But who knew which was the real Carlos? Not the assassins who carried out his orders, not even the countless women who loved and protected him...

Corgi edition published 1976
Corgi edition reprinted 1976
© Dennis Eisenberg and Eli Landau 1976

Thanks to Salo Wolf for lending me this title.

How a rich white girl and a black police spy tried to start the American Revolution

When Patty Hearst, daughter of millionaire publisher Randolph Hearst, was dragged screaming from her Californian apartment, her abduction hit the headlines of every newspaper in the world.

Terms for her release were announced: her father was ordered to supply the Californian poor with food. The operation was, after some hesitation, carried out, but in an atmosphere of greed and incompetence.

New demands were made by Patty's kidnappers but before they could be met news was broken to an astonished world that Patty Hearst was no longer held by force; she had joined the ranks of her kidnappers: the Symbionese Liberation Army.©

Who these people were, why they formed an army, what they hoped to achieve and how they convinced Patty to join them are just some of the many fascinating and crucial questions answered in this astonishing book about one of the most bizarre events of the century.

David Boulton is Editor of ITV's award-winning documentary series, WORLD IN ACTION

First published in Great Britain in 1975 by New English Library under the title of The Making of Tania Hearst © David Boulton, 1975
First NEL paperback edition November 1975