Book 2 of The Speedicut Memoirs picks up
Charles Speedicut's story from the point in 1918 at which he
is about to leave for the Crimea to rescue the Dowager
Empress of Russia, a mission which he foresees will be the most
dangerous of his life to date. But Fate intervenes and sends
him back to the Middle East, where he has a hand in the end of
the war in Syria, followed by a series of adventures
rescuing members of deposed European royal families
that ends, with perfect symmetry,
in the Valley of the Kings . . .
"Speedicut, Lawrence and the Turks: the unspeakable
in pursuit of the uneatable."
Field Marshal Viscount Allenby
"I am deeply indebted to Charles Speedicut for giving me
the idea for Ninotchka."
Ernst Lubitsch
"I should have killed Speedicut when I had the chance."
Marguerite, Princess Ali Fahmy
