Operation Jaguar

About the Book

American Gung Ho tactics in the Venezuelan Amazon Jungle and C.I.A. intrigue after the mission.

AUTHOR'S COMMENT: "Whilst visiting my American friend Lee at his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia (he says call him a Hill William) I took in the local colour and visited the graves and sites of the famous Hatfield/McCoy feud.

That was the birth of the idea for this novel which is centred around Joss Hatfield, a fictitious descendant of Devil Anse Hatfield."

About the Author

Bill Hallworth was born into a coal-mining family in the County of Derbyshire. Like his peers he began his working life at the age of fourteen in an iron foundry. In 1942 at the age of 18 he joined the Royal Navy, seeing action in the Mediterranean with the North African, Sicily and Italy invasion landings. He remained in the Navy for twelve years - his love of the sea taking hime to the far corners of the world.

On leaving the Navy he lived in London and after vocal training at Wigmore Hall he became a professional singer and actor, travelling the boards for three years.

He then studied and became an academic, lecturing in Wood Science and Timber Technology at the London College of Furniture, which is now the East London University.