The Jaws Of The Caracal: The Untold Story of Angola's Civil War (Chasing the Black Rooster)

Dani's next task: to come up with an elite commando unit capable of locating and dealing with the Black Rooster, Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, in personal . To add to his task, home-grown political pressures make his job more difficult. Dani is faced with a different set of challenges that will test his patience to the full. Again, he travels the world to find the latest technology and the best weaponry money can buy.Will he succeed in producing a force of men he can trust with his life?*Based on true events, the Chasing the Black Rooster series gives an inside look at the world of arms dealers, world powers, and soldiers for hire trying to cope with an impossible reality and striving to succeed at any price.Background:Angola's brutal civil war has been raging for twenty-five years. The struggle, which began as an ideological conflict, has become a bloody war for control of vast diamond and oil fields. Both sides use their own people as hostages, and the country is destroyed, its inhabitants murdered and exiled. Now, in early 1999, the Black Rooster flag of UNITA, controlled entirely by the charismatic Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, flies over all rural areas. Only a few cities still remain in the hands of Angola's Marxist government. Desperate, it turns to private companies to remove Savimbi from the scene and end the war. Their price: the output of Angola's rich oil fields.