About the book: 2011 / Foreign Legion. Here, dashing guys who essentially have nothing to lose risk their lives in the colonial hell. Africa, Asia, jungles, deserts - wherever the fate of these prodigal sons of France takes them... Someone was chasing big money. Someone dreamed of distant countries and exciting adventures. Someone simply hid from the law under a white military uniform. But under the scorching sun of Algeria there are neither right nor wrong, neither men of honor nor scoundrels. And yet there are no cowards there - because cowards simply do not survive among the countless dangers that make up the ordinary life of legionnaires…