Book Overview
When a local bandit holds engineers of the Baghdad Railway to ransom, Britain is secretly delighted - the railway is a potential threat to her interests in the Persian Gulf. However, she sends Lady Keso to sweet talk the brigand out of his plan in an empty gesture of goodwill.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0340708557
ISBN13:9780340708552
Release Date:June 1999
Publisher:Not Avail
Length:298 Pages
Weight:0.38 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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Rated 5 starsEntertaining and well written period spy-thriller
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Gavin Lyall is an excellent, if somewhat under-rated, writer of adventures and spy novels. His latest offerings are set in the years just before World War I and feature Britain's recently established Secret Service Bureau - a small, low-budget, and rather amateur outfit establishing its usefulness through the force of character of its head and the dedicated service of its few operatives.Like others in the series "All Honourable...
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