Man on Fire

The information I had gathered is that the story originaly took place in Rome Itay in the 1960's which at the time was the largest kidnapping capitol of the world. He was a marine with honors and the rest of the information is closed about that. Ether the information is fake or the information is classified either way it rases a suspition if the man John Creasy is real. As I searched for more information there were a few blogs that jumped out at me. There was three sites i went to the first said the story of man on fire is not true and that the real character was from a movie in the 60's with the same bases only insted of the characters name being John creasy the name was Greasy. the second was everything is true but the fact that it was based in mexico city. The third and final refered me to ten different sites in the end gave me the same answer, I don't know for sure.