Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, one of the world's best-known mercenaries, has died at the age of 100, his family has confirmed. A former accountant, Hoare gained fame -- and inspired a movie -- for leading ...

Mike Hoare, an Irish soldier of fortune who led white mercenary forces in civil wars in Congo in the 1960s and a ragtag band of commandos in a farcical aborted coup in the Seychelles in 1981, died ...

Michael “Mad Mike” Hoare, considered the world’s most famous mercenary, has died at the age of 100. His family said in a statement that he died in his sleep at a care facility in Durban, South Africa, ...

An accountant born to Irish parents in India, Hoare was driven to the mercenary life by an “anti-communist fervor” during the 1960s, subduing Marxist revolts in the Democratic Republic of Congo with a ...

Michael Thomas Hoare has lived a life that, were it not endlessly documented, would seem a pastiche of barroom brags, urban legends and anecdotes lifted from mid-21st century military pulp fiction.

Michael “Mad Mike” Hoare, one of the world’s best-known mercenaries, has died at the age of 100, his family has confirmed. A former accountant, Hoare gained fame — and inspired a movie — for leading ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, one of the most famous foreign mercenaries to have played a role in Africa's violent transition from colonial rule, has died aged 100. Born in ...