Carlos: Portrait of a Terrorist
In Pursuit of the Jackal, 1975-2011
- Published: 5 April 2012
- ISBN: 9780241963029
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 298
All the ingredients of a fictional espionage novel are here - sharply drawn characters, a fast-paced plot, violence, terror, intrigue and even the obligatory sex...A highly readable portrait of a committed revolutionary and compulsive bully
The New York Times
What matters in this immensely informative book is what it tells us about how terrorists operate rather than why
Richard Clutterbuck, Observer
The tentacles of terror, spreading out from the KGB via the military headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine... is painstakingly and vividly portrayed by Colin Smith
Daily Mail, Don Anderson
A good solid, and very readable account of the way an overweight Venezuelan rich boy, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, was transformed by degrees into the lean, commanding figure in a white raincoat who had... the OPEC oil moguls literally prostrate on the carpet
Alexander McDonald, Birmingham Post
For years Ilich Sanchez played cat and mouse with the governments of the world... Now he's locked up in a French jail, from which he should never be released. In a classic piece of reportage, Colin Smith reconstructs Carlos's filthy career
Oxford Times