Well, the early 1960s was a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hoare]great[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Schramme]time[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Crisis]for[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_M%C3%BCller_%28mercenary%29]colorful mercenaries[/url], so that plot sounds perfect. Maybe it's a remote stretch of African jungle instead of an island?

Sorry, not trying to steal your thunder or hijack anything, just got my imagination fired up.