A Necessary Hell
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Yes, Harry had decided to keep Hafner’s gift. Why on earth wouldn’t he?
And with a stash of dollars in the glove compartment, it was going to be one hell of a holiday.
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About the author
Nigel Price, who writes also under the pseudonym Anthony Conway, read English and Philosophy at St David’s University College, Lampeter.
After training at Sandhurst he was commissioned into 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles, remaining with the Brigade of Gurkhas for twelve years. In 1982 he was given command of his battalion’s Mortar Platoon in the Falklands War.
After leaving the Army he worked with film Director John Boorman, writing his own screenplay The Long March, about China in the 1930s. A second screenplay was Antoine, about the life of another of his heroes, French author and pioneer airman, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
His first novel, The Moon Tree, deals with the 1940s Burma War and the years of conflict in Asia that followed.
The Caspasian series set in the 1920s and 30s, follows the adventures of Captain John Caspasian, Indian Army officer and defender of the Empire.
The Black Hand is the opening novel in Jaeger, a spy series set during the Great War in homage to one of Anthony’s heroes, John Buchan.
For younger readers he has written The Case of the Uncomfortable Train Seat, the opening exploits of Teddy Brutus, schoolboy sleuth and antiquarian.
The books:
The Moon Tree
Caspasian series: The Viceroy’s Captain; The Colonel’s Renegade; The General’s Envoy; The Bigadier’s Outcast; The Major’s Traitor.
Jaeger series: The Black Hand.
Children’s fiction: The Case of the Uncomfortable Train Seat.