Erik Hazelhoff has had a life that, as Len Deighton writes in his foreword to this book, sparks envy in a fiction writer. Handsome, intelligent, well-spoken, multilingual and very, very fortunate, Hazelhoff survived a dramatic period as a fighter pilot in World War II and has traveled the world since, pursuing various careers. His first autobiographical work, "Soldier of Orange," about his war years, was a best-seller in his native Netherlands and an Oscar-nominated best foreign film. He lives and writes on the Big Island, still planning what he says will be his magnum opus.