![]() Getting out of the Foreign Legion, as Salazar soon realized, proved impossible. The Foreign Legion still exists today as an elite army of modern mercenaries from around the world, in the service of la France.Ĭonsidered a haven for the dregs of society, joining the Foreign Legion was rumored to be simple, but it wasn't. King Louis Philippe II created the Foreign Legion in 1831 as a way to rid France of penniless immigrants and others considered a liability to the French establishment. And those are the ones giving orders." ( New York Times) Legion of the Lost is his story, the improbable, very funny tale of a sensitive, bookish child of Mexican immigrants who walked away from a promising career and, for romantic reasons, threw in his lot with a motley assortment of thugs, drunks, drug abusers, and desperate refugees from the far corners of the earth. Salazar took the express elevator straight to hell. ![]() "From an air-conditioned Chicago office, Mr. ![]()
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