- Politics and government, Relations, Intelligence service, Foreign relations
Traces the struggle for supremacy in Central Asia between the Soviet Union and Great Britain.
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Earnest, cool, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Hopkirk
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 571
- Publisher
- Books on Tape, Oxford Paperbacks, J. Murray
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9784770017031
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First sentence
“"You could smell them coming, it was said, even before you heard the thunder of their hooves."”
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