Dogs of War, but with a caveat. It's a slower moving film, particularly the early part. Most of the action is in the third act and it's at night. It has some great moments. Given the passage of time, it differs heavily from the book, though the basic plot is the same. The Wild Geese novel swipes a lot of elements from Frederick Forsyth's novel, without the same level of craft. However, the Wild Geese Novel is pretty good and fleshes out some of the characters.
Not exactly the same kind of film; but, a decent caper/action film is Killer Force, with Peter Fonda, Telly Savalas and Christopher Lee. Ian Yule, who plays Tosh, appears as one of a group of mercenaries. Fonda is a security officer for a South Africa diamond mining company. There has been smuggling from within and his chief sets him on a mission to try to uncover the source. He ends up recruited by a group of mercenaries, led by Hugh O'Brien, to lead them past the security precautions to get to the diamond vault. There are some twists and turns and it's a decent little B-movie. OJ Simpson was one of the mercenaries.
Oliver Stone's Salvador features James Woods as a journalist, who encounters an American mercenary in the country.
There are some others out there, though of variable quality.
A decent mercenary film is the Professionals, with Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster. It's set at the early part of the 20th Century, where a group of specialists have been hired by a millionaire to bring back his wife, who has been kidnapped by a Mexican revolutionary. Like Wild Geese, things aren't quite what they seem. Very well done with a great cast. It's done as a modern western, though.
Fortunately, Ah keep mah feathers numbered for just such an emergency!
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