Three Worlds Gone Mad Dangerous Journeys Through the War Zones of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific

As the author of The World's Most Dangerous Places, Robert Young Pelton has come to know some of the most unusual and dangerous individuals in the world. In Three Worlds Gone Mad, he introduces an extraordinary cast of characters from three of the most war-ravaged countries on earth - the West African country of Sierra Leone, the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya, and a mysterious island in the South Pacific called Bougainville. In Sierra Leone, as he wanders through the world's most expensive peacekeeping mission, he meets an ex-mercenary who hunts pirates, a ragtag militia whose members believe they have supernatural powers, and white men with "diamond fever." In Chechnya, Pelton enters the jihad with three traveling companions - an American mujahid who wants to die, a young woman seeing her first war as a journalist, and a grumpy cameraman. Pelton brings this motley crew down the secret muj trail from Georgia and into terrorist-filled bunkers, suicide squad-manned front lines, and SCUD missile attacks. Finally, Pelton chronicles his two-year odyssey to meet one of the most elusive rebel leaders in the world - Francis Ona - who has survived numerous assassination attempts. Ona threatens to kill any white man who sets foot on his tiny island called Bougainville. Filled with tension and intrigue, Three Worlds Gone Made offers a dramatic vision of war and humanity in our times.Pelton, Robert Young is the author of 'Three Worlds Gone Mad Dangerous Journeys Through the War Zones of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific', published 2003 under ISBN 9781592281008 and ISBN 1592281001.