"This is a story of an attempted coup d'etat more than twenty years ago on the Seychelles, an idyllic but obscure group of islands in the Indian Ocean. At the time, the attempt made headlines across the world; partly because it involved names still famous or notorious from the mercenary involvement in the Congo in the 1960s; partly because it involved the hijacking of an Air India jetliner; partly because South Africa, the international pariah, was involved; and partly because the incident was perceivedas another small skirmish in the Cold War. However, this is more than a behind the scenes account of those faded headlines. It is the story of one individual's personal growth." --Page i.