Pictures To Die For [Paperback]

Journalism at its very best.

--Noel Young, Former Editor, The Sunday Mail (Glasgow)

My God! We have James Bond working for us!

--Michel Sola, Picture Editor Paris Match Magazine

You are not just the James Bond of Journalism. You are also the Jason Bourne, Philip Marlowe, Sherlock Holmes and maybe a dash of Columbo. A brilliant achievement.

--John Wellington, managing editor, The Mail on Sunday, London

Photo journalist Ron Laytner has lived a life few can imagine. While on a constant quest for the world's best stories, he has stepped on Queen Elizabeth's foot. Photographed President John F. Kennedy shortly before his assassination and survived an airliner crash into a crocodile infested African river. One of the most celebrated and widely published photo journalists Laytner shares his amazing photographs and tales from his globe-trotting adventures in Pictures To Die For which shows why they called him 'the James Bond of Journalism'.

Laytner's journey began when he faced a rifle-firing madman on his first assignment for the Toronto Telegram. We share Laytner's fear while surviving a submarine accident off the coast of Canada. His infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan. He got the first photograph of international terrorist Carlos the Jackal., avoided being hanged as a spy on the island of Zanzibar. He was even ambassador of a country in the embattled South China Sea.