Robin Moore (b. October 31, 1925) is a U.S. writer who authored the lyrics of "Ballad of the Green Berets" and the books The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy and (with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy) The Happy Hooker: My Own Story. October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Ballad of the Green Berets is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special operations force in the U.S. Army. ... This article is about the U.S. Special Operations Force. ... The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy is a non-fiction book by Robin Moore about the notorious French Connection drug trafficking scheme. ...

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Moore attended Middlesex School, Belmont Hill School. He flew combat missions over Germany in the closing months of World War II and graduated from Harvard College in 1949. He worked in television production and then at the Sheraton Hotel Company co-founded by his father. While working in the hotel business in the Caribbean, he recorded the early days of Castro in the non-fiction book, The Devil To Pay. Connections with his Harvard classmate, Robert F. Kennedy, led to his joining US Special Forces in a civilian role and writing a book about the Green Berets. Another book, The Khaki Mafia (written with June Collins) gives a fictional account of the Vietnam service club scandal involving Sergeant Major of the Army William O. Wooldridge and others. Flag Seal Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub of the Universe (The State House, according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, is the hub of the Solar System), Athens of America Location Location in Massachusetts Government Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Geographical characteristics Area     City 232. ... Middlesex School The Circle, Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts. ... Belmont Hill School is an all-boys preparatory school located on a 23 acre campus in Belmont, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. ... Combatants Allies: Poland, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, France/Free France, United States, China, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Greece, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Hungary, Burma, Slovakia Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8... Harvard Yard Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, having been founded in 1636. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... The Sheraton hotel brand is owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. ... RFK redirects here. ... Sergeant Major of the Army insignia (U.S. Army) The Sergeant Major of the Army is a unique rank in the United States Army. ... William O. Wooldridge was an U.S. Army soldier. ...

During the 1970's and 1980's, Robin travelled widely, spending time in such places as Dubai, Iran, Rhodesia and Russia. Having gathered the information needed, he wrote "Dubai", "The White Tribe" and 'The Moscow Connection".

Moore spent December of 2001 in Afghanistan, where he travelled widely and then wrote the bestseller, "The Hunt for Bin Laden". In 2003 he went to Iraq and then wrote "Hunting Down Saddam".

Robin's latest book, co-authored with Major General Geoffrey (Jeff) Lambert, USASF(Ret), "The Singleton - Target Cuba", is a novel about Castro and biological warfare.

He is listed as "creator" of the comic strip, "Tales of the Green Beret". Tales of the Green Beret is a comic strip created by Robin Moore and Joe Kubert. ...

Bibliography

• The Devil To Pay (ISBN 1879915022)

• The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy (ISBN 1592280447)

• The Green Berets (ISBN 0312984928)

• The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (ISBN 0060014164)

External links

Footnotes

References

• Author biography on Amazon

From Robin Moore himself.

See also