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This is a true
story about an idyllic tropical island and the mercenaries who set
out to steal it for profit and adventure.
In 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’état, install a
puppet prime minister, and transform it into a crook’s
paradise.
Their leader was a Texas
soldier-of-fortune type named Mike Perdue. His lieutenant was a
Canadian Nazi named Wolfgang Droege. Their destination:
Dominica.
For 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 case of their lives.
Set 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, Bayou of Pigs tells a
remarkable tale of foreign military intervention, revolutionary
politics, greed, treachery, stupidity, deceit and one of the most
outlandish crimes ever attempted: the theft of a nation.
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