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Informationen zum Autor Ralph Riegel works in the Southern Correspondent with Independent Newspapers, covering the region for The Irish Independent, The Southern Independent and The Evening Herald. He has reported on stories from the US to Australia and from Africa to the Far East. A graduate of DIT-Rathmines, he is a regular contributor to TV and radio including RTE, the BBC, Channel 4, TV3, NewsTalk and C103FM. His work has also appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The (London) Independent and The Belfast Telegraph. He is the author of five books, four of which were best-sellers. Two are currently the focus of upcoming TV programmes. The fifth, Three Kings, was long-listed for the 2008 William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award. He lives in Fermoy, Co Cork with his wife, Mary, and their three children. His interests include history, travel, Gaelic games, supporting Manchester United and religiously attending Bruce Springsteen concerts. Klappentext The interior of the old Ford armoured car stank of sweat, blood and acrid smoke. Pat's eyes desperately struggled to focus in the gloom of the biting cordite fog ...On 15 September 1961, Trooper Patrick Mullins was posted missing after the bloody ambush of an Irish UN convoy in a suburb of Elisabethville in the Katanga province of the Congo. The circumstances of that fateful day have remained shrouded in confusion and contradiction for five decades - until now. Missing in Action reveals for the first time how an ill-equipped and heavily out-gunned Irish soldier fought with astonishing courage against heavily armed and ruthless Katangan gendarmes. Through interviews with the survivors and access to military intelligence sources, the truth about Trooper Mullins' heroic last stand and ultimate fate can now be told.
