![]() 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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