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Peter Hopkirk has traveled widely in the regions where his six books are set—Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and—for 20 years—on the Times. No stranger to misadventure, he has twice been held in secret police cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into 14 languages.
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'Tells with great fluency, authority and narrative skill . . . a story which no single book has told before' * Sunday Telegraph * 'Recreates with much verve and brilliance, the clandestine attempts by Britain's imperial rivals to subvert the British Empire in India' * Guardian *

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  • PublisherOxford Paperbacks
  • Publication date1995
  • ISBN 10 0192853031
  • ISBN 13 9780192853035
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