THE MAN WHO SAID "NO" TO SADDAM HUSSEIN, AND OTHER TALES FROM HIS SECRET LIFE AS A COLD WAR HERO

Alfonso Cosentino told Saddam Husein "No" when the deadly Iraqi dictator offered him lavish riches to equip his military in the early 1980s. If that was the only thing he did, that would be more than enough to make him a folk legend. But Cosentino did much more.