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Christopher Robbins
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| Born | (1946-11-19)19 November 1946 Bristol, England, U.K. |
| Died | 24 December 2012(2012-12-24) (aged 66) London, England, U.K. |
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| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1963–2012 |
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Christopher Robbins (19 November 1946 – 24 December 2012) was a British Writer and journalist. He is best known for his 1978 worldwide bestseller Air America, a non-fiction book which was eventually made into a film in 1990. It is about the once secret airline run by the CIA for covered operations during the Vietnam War.
Christopher Robbins was born on 19 November 1946, in Bristol where he grow up attending Taunton School. Gifted schoolboy, started working for free on the Evening World and then the Evening Post. At the age of sixteen, the highly talented boy won a competition and become "junior jazz critic" for The Daily Telegraph another Bristol local newspaper. He later specialized on investigative work – especially on CIA – writing pieces for the Observer Magazine.
During the 1970s, previous to his bestseller masterpiece, Robbins was just a free-lance journalist, unable to pay off all of his debt, including the rent.
In 2008, In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared won the Dolman Best Travel Book Award. Another book of his, The empress of Ireland won the Saga Award for wit.
During his career he has written for many newspapers and magazines both in Europe and the USA, spending most of the last years working as journalist and film script writer.
The plot is adapted from Christopher Robbins' 1979 non-fiction book, chronicling the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency financed airline during the Vietnam War to transport weapons and supplies within Laos and other areas of Indochina subsequent to the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos. The publicity for the film—advertised as a light-hearted buddy movie—implied a tone that differs greatly with the actual film's tone, which includes such serious themes as an anti-war message, focus on the opium trade, and a negative portrayal of Royal Laotian General Vang Pao (played by actor Burt Kwouk as "General Lu Soong").
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