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The son of underpaid Mexican immigrants, Jaime earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue. But at twenty-three, he was disillusioned with the corporate fast track. So he became an outcast American in a hard-bitten group of recruits-men on the run from their pasts, men without hope: He joined the French Foreign Legion.
From the Legion's notoriously brutal training to Salazar's fierce competitiveness, ultimate disillusionment and dramatic desertion, Legion of the Lost is a compelling, firsthand account of today's French Foreign Legion that will dispel myths while adding to the legend of the finest trained army of warriors the world has ever known.
- Sales Rank: #1089995 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08-01
- Released on: 2006-08-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.97" h x .69" w x 5.99" l, .61 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
From Booklist
This odd but not dull volume could be subtitled A Yuppie in the Foreign Legion. A yuppie is precisely what Salazar was, with a probable fast-track career before him, when he took advantage of being in Paris to join the legion. He survived the grinding, even brutal training, and for some while he also survived his comrades. They were the lost and the lonely from all over Europe, especially the less salubrious parts of it, and Salazar admits to having never been quite comfortable with them, for all the legion's tight camaraderie. He also suspects that they were never quite comfortable with him, nor too unhappy when he deserted to return to his business career, able to say that he had proved something about himself to himself and to write a useful sketch of the contemporary legion and the mercenary scene in general, for readers interested in either information or thrills. Roland Green
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About the Author
Jaime Salazar now works for Rosen, a leading pipeline inspector, and lives in Houston, Texas. This is his first book.
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58 of 64 people found the following review helpful.
Legion of the Bored
By Illuminatus
Those wondering whether the world needs another book on the French Foreign Legion will have their suspicions amply confirmed by this generally innocuous work.
The subject appears interesting enough - an educated American with nothing to escape from except a good job and a promising career decides to chuck it all in search of adventure, romance and personal fulfillment in the Foreign Legion. The problem is that there is no adventure.
Mr. Salazar does offer a faithful, if spotty, description of the Legion's brutal, often sadistic, training regime but after he succeeds and receives the treasured képi blanc, nothing happens. Without any wars or even police actions, Mr. Salazar discovers that life in an elite mercenary force with nothing to do can be just as boring as doing nothing anywhere else. The closest he comes to real combat is when he threatens to disembowel with his bare hands an Arab who pulls a knife on him. This potentially interesting situation is terminated by a copain who distracts the would be assailant by asking for directions to the nearest MacDonalds. Hardly the stuff of legend. On another occasion, we are treated to the tiresome account of the difficulties encountered in painting murals for the Legion's Christmas crèche without quality brushes. Not exactly Beau Geste is it?
Most of the second part of the book is devoted to curiously similar tales of getting very drunk and bedding as many willing women as possible while on leave. Finally, the dull periods between these orgies becomes too much to handle (By now, the reader feels the same way) and he deserts, only to return, be imprisoned, escape and return again. (One wonders how he managed to get an engineering degree at Purdue.)
At the end of this odyssey, Mr. Salazar still feels incomplete (like the reader) and we are left with the impression that he might have done just as well to run away to join the circus.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Rooting for the Russians
By Chris Brown
Jaime Salazar is one of the most arrogant, annoying, and talentless writers I have ever read. Yes, we get it. You are brilliant because you have a Purdue undergraduate degree (wow, very impressive). Headhunters shower you with job offers and you could be making mountains of money in corporate America. Yet you are a enfant terrible that needs to challenge himself and have adventures. The Peace Corps is for "pussies" and for some reason you decide against joining the US Marines. You can see this guy's chip on his shoulder from the first couple of pages and it just gets worse if you decide the slog through this horrible book. The only thing that kept me reading was the hope that his Russian enemies beat him to a pulp and that is what finally makes him desert.
29 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
A Yuppie in the Legion of the Damned
By Marco Antonio Abarca
There is a genre of literature consisting of memoirs of men who have served in the French Foreign Legion. There are two autobiographies that stand out as the very best examples of the genre. On one end of the spectrum is Simon Murray's "Legionnaire", a heroic story of privileged Brit who ends up fighting in Algeria. At the other end of the spectrum is Christian Jennings' "Mouthful fo Rocks", a self loathing but very funny Brit who ends up by deserting from the Legion. Unfortunately for Jaime Salazar, he falls into the camp of the deserters.
Salazar begins his journey as a 25 year old mechanical engineer straight out of Perdue University. While driving around in his new 5 series BMW, he realizes the corporate rat race is not for him. He quits his job and heads to Europe for a little backpacking adventure. While in France, he gets the strange notion of becoming a gentleman/private in the French Foreign Legion. Thus, the American college boy and former Yuppie begins his year long adventure in the Legion.
All the classic Legion scenes and characters are found in this memoir. There is strenous basic training at the Farm, brutal and stupid NCO's, back breaking physical training and plenty of drinking stories. Everything you would expect to be covered in a Legion tale is spelled out in vivid detail.
Like many a recruit, Salazar entered the Legion hoping for a Simon Murray experience and instead found a brutal peacetime Legion that specialized in devouring its own recruits. In the course of a year, Salazar goes from being a would be Simon Murray hero to a Christian Jennings' deserter. Salazar is refreshingly honest about his many failures and small triumphs inside the Legion. He is at his best in describing the small details of how he tried to survive his many grueling experiences. Unfortuantely, he lacks the funny self loathing and insights that Christian Jennings' brought to his story of deserting the Legion. In a sense, he leaves the Legion as naive as when he entered.
For afficionados of the Legion memoir genre, this volume stands out because he is one of the few Americans who have recently written about his experience. I think this may be the only American memoir that we will see for quite sometime. In this post 9/11 world, any young American itching for adventure and a little trigger time, can find plenty of it in his own nation's army.
Although not a classic, Jaime Salazar does a credible job of telling his story of Legion life in the late 1990's. I would recommend it to all afficionados of the genre and for naive young men who like to day dream of one day joining the Legion of the Damned.
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