I Am the Famous Carlos: The Story of Carlos the Jackal, the World's First Celebrity Terrorist, Christina Hoag
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I Am the Famous Carlos: The Story of Carlos the Jackal, the World's First Celebrity Terrorist

Author: Christina Hoag

Narrator: Andre G. Chapoy

Unabridged: 4 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Published: 11/29/2023

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Criminals & Outlaws

Synopsis

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 and notorious womanizer, 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 Caracas schoolboy became the world’s first celebrity terrorist.

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