I Am Soldier of Fortune

Dancing with Devils

By: Robert K. Brown, Vann Spencer

Narrated by: David Marantz

Robert K. Brown, former Green Beret, after a bizarre military career that succeeded in getting him kicked out of Special Forces not once but twice, and completing the Command and General Staff College without a security clearance, while meantime being wounded in Nam, finally found his true calling as a publisher.

Thirty-eight years ago he launched an upstart magazine from his basement called Soldier of Fortune, which pushed the bounds of journalism to its limits with his untamed brand of reporting - a camera in one hand, a gun in the other, and soon thereafter he discovered that he’d established a worldwide community. His wildly popular, notorious magazine became an icon for action-seekers in the U.S. and around the world. In this long-awaited book, Brown tells his own story, taking listeners into combat zones where he and his daring combat journalists, or fearless "dogs of war", trotted across the globe. His rogue warrior journalists embedded themselves with anti-Communist guerillas or freedom fighters, often training and fighting with rebels against oppressive regimes. In their revolutionary journalistic style, they created the action and then wrote about it. Generals and leaders of exotic armies welcomed the SOF visitors and led them or allowed them to tread into unchartered territory. Brown himself accompanied teams to work and fight with the Rhodesians; the Afghans during the Afghan-Russo war, Christian Phalange in Lebanon; ethnic minority Karens in Burma; the ethnic tribes fighting the Communist government of Laos; the army of El Salvador; and the armed forces of struggling Croatia. Brown sent medical teams, often into the jaws of danger, to Burma, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, and also into Peru after a devastating earthquake.

In short, the "Soldiers of Fortune" went where even the U.S. government feared to tread, and they did it with gallant style, not fearing risk but welcoming the challenge, as long as they felt the cause was right and needed to be reported. In this book the exploits of Brown and his veteran teams are revealed for the first time in all their gonzo glory, even as the U.S. military, public, and polite diplomatic society sometimes shunned their endeavors.

This is the story of Robert Brown’s dogged quest, in journalism as well as warfare, to "Slay Dragons, do noble deeds and never, never give up."

©2013 Robert K. Brown (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Great!!!

If you were ever a soldier of fortune magazine fan…you’ll love this epic summary of the founder lt. Col Robert k. Browns high adventures and misfortunes across the globe! Great read/listen.

RKB

His recreations of his adventures are amazing. This book brings you on an adventure, most of of will never expiriance . What's unique about any of RKB's publications (Soldier Of Fortune) you can pick one up, and find yourself in that time period. Never boring ,but intense.

A behind the scenes look at Robert K. Brown and SOF Magazine

I LOVE this book! I read my first SOF magazine back in 1978 or 1980.

When I enter the US Army, I ordered the earlier issues. This book gives a fantastic behind the scenes look into LTC Brown and SOF Magazine.

Once again, I LOVE this book!

This magazine made a huge impact

Regardless what you want to believe, this magazine made a huge impact on young men and them joining the military. Thank heavens they did.

Very interesting story

Takes a great narrator to read what amounts to an unedited stream of consciousness work. Really makes you feel like you’re sitting at the bar listening to brown tell his story.