

In this case, my agent’s mom saw a YouTube video about Roy and his story. Someone has read one and given my an idea for the next. Benavidez eventually received the Medal of Honor.īlehm, 46, is the author of “Fearless” and “The Only Thing Worth Dying For,” also war stories and both New York Times best-sellers.Ī: All my books have led from previous books. The story centers on Roy Benavidez, a Green Beret sergeant whose actions that day saved lives and left him so gravely wounded he was being zipped into a body bag before a medic realized he was still breathing.

“Legend,” by Cardiff author Eric Blehm, offers a window into the history, politics and heroism of the Vietnam War by focusing on a harrowing mission to rescue an American Special Forces team trapped in Cambodia on May 2, 1968.
