All Honourable Men

All Honourable Men

by Gavin Lyall (Author)

Synopsis

When a local bandit holds engineers of the Baghdad Railway to ransom, Britain is secretly delighted, since the railway is a potential threat to her interests in the Persian Gulf. So, as an empty gesture, Britain sends two agents to solve the problem.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 298
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 04 Dec 1997

ISBN 10: 0340708549
ISBN 13: 9780340708545

Author Bio
Gavin Lyall (1932-2003) lived in Hampstead and enjoyed sailing on the Thames in his motor cruiser. From 1959 to 1962 he was a newspaper reporter and the aviation correspondent for the Sunday Times. His first novel, The Wrong Side of the Sky, was published in 1961, drawing from his personal experiences in the Libyan Desert and in Greece. Lyall left journalism in 1963 to become a full-time author, writing 17 novels before his death in 2003.