Our Man In Kuwait: A tense historical spy thriller based on true events behind 1960s Cold War espionage in the Middle East (Spy Thriller Series) - Softcover

Burfitt-Dons, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1916449182 ISBN 13: 9781916449183

Publisher: New Century, 2022

Synopsis

From world chemical weapons expert, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, 'A brilliant marriage of fact and fiction'

Kuwait 1960. With Soviet backing Iraq plans to invade.

Gordon Carlisle lives in the expat community of Ahmadi with little to worry about other than when to next don his dinner jacket.

When enlisted by an MI6 agent everything changes.

Even marriage to his beautiful new wife Anita breaks down as he becomes a suspect in a chain of deaths in the Protectorate.

Ian Fleming’s time in Kuwait is recorded at first hand as Britain prepares to meet the Iraqi forces head on with Operation Vantage.

Our Man In Kuwait is a colonial-era thriller set against the background of big power conflict. The ultimate timepiece tinderbox of sun, sex and spies.

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About the Author

Known for her use of personal experience to write behind the scenes, Louise Burfitt-Dons draws on her Kuwaiti birth and early upbringing in the oil rich State to write her new spy thriller Our Man In Kuwait. The plot was inspired by certain incidents that took place during 1960 when the expat community was living under threat of invasion by neighbouring Iraq. That same year author and Naval Intelligence freelancer Ian Fleming visited the country and closely befriended her father Ian Byres, the Preventative Health Officer for Kuwait Oil Company. Louise was seven. She remembers vividly the men's shared interest in her father's personal zoo and the ensuing contest between a viper and scorpion on their lounge carpet. The two "Ian"s then went out on one of her father's hawking expeditions into the desert which features in the story. Other elements of which she became aware, such as the British double-agent Kim Philby's tour of the Gulf States prior to his defection to the Soviet Union in 1963, helped shape some of the other major characters, Louise's Kuwaiti experience and research features in her earlier books. In The Missing Activist, a private investigator goes undercover to learn about Jihadi brides and the sequel The Killing of the Cherrywood MP sees her tackling the counter reaction to Islamic extremism by the Far Right. In The Secret War she probes links between the Chinese Communist Party and UK universities. Louise has also TV thrillers for the Lifetime TV network.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Century
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1916449182
• ISBN 13: 9781916449183
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334