The Right People Volume 7 - Rain Dance in Upper Volta

Because of their connections to Libya, Tom and his friends from the Greek socialist resistance group become more and more deeply involved in the political developments of 1972, especially in Germany and Arab countries.

First Phil and the German TV journalists Hans and Reiner witness a US bomb attack on a supposed chemical weapons factory in Libya, and later Phil falls head over heels in love with Amira, a cousin of Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan head of state, in Tripolis.

Shortly before the Olympic Games in Munich, Phil and a few others from the Greek group travel to Palestinian training camps where they find evidence of planned attacks on the Olympics. A US intelligence officer is appalled by the German security authorities' botched preparations for this world event and finds the security concept "weaker than at a rain dance in Upper Volta".

Tom has just started his service in the German army when Palestinian terrorists attack the Israeli team at the Olympic Games in Munich. Together with Phil in a crisis team at the Bonn Ministry of Defense, he witnesses the dramatic events in Munich and their embarrassing consequences for the German government, culminating in the "hijacking" of the Lufthansa plane "Kiel".

I would like to point out once again that this book is fiction, even though it is based on intensive research into the historical context. All the characters, including the officials who appear in the book, as well as the plot itself are fictitious.

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