The Baghdad Railway Club Read By Andrew Martin
| Title | : | The Baghdad Railway Club |
| Author | : | Andrew Martin |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 291 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0571249612 |
Baghdad 1917 Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason He arrives to find a city on the point of insurrection, his cover apparently blown and his only contact lying dead with flies in his eyes As Baghdad swelters in a particularly torrid summer, the heat alone threatens the lives Baghdad 1917 Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason He arrives to find a city on the point of insurrection, his cover apparently blown and his only contact lying dead with flies in his eyes As Baghdad swelters in a particularly torrid summer, the heat alone threatens the lives of the British soldiers who occupy the city The recently ejected Turks are still a danger and many of the local Arabs are none too friendly either.For Jim, who is not particularly good in warm weather, the situation grows pricklier by the day Aside from his investigation, he is working on the railways around the city His boss is the charming, enigmatic Lieutenant Colonel Shepherd, who presides over the gracious dining society called The Baghdad Railway Club and who may or may not be a Turkish agent Jim s search for the truth brings him up against murderous violence in a heat dazed, labyrinthine city where an enemy awaits around every corner
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Librarian Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name See this thread for information Andrew Martin born 6 July 1962 is an English novelist and journalist.Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at the University of Oxford and qualified as a barrister He has since worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications while writing novels, sta Librarian Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name See this thread for information Andrew Martin born 6 July 1962 is an English novelist and journalist.Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at the University of Oxford and qualified as a barrister He has since worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications while writing novels, starting with Bilton, a comic novel about journalists, and The Bobby Dazzlers, a comic novel set in the North of England, for which he was named Spectator Young Writer of the Year His series of detective novels about Jim Stringer, a railwayman reassigned to the North Eastern Railway Police in Edwardian England, includes The Necropolis Railway, The Blackpool Highflyer, The Lost Luggage Porter, Murder at Deviation Junction and Death on a Branch Line He has also written the non fiction book How to Get Things Really Flat A Man s Guide to Ironing, Dusting and Other Household Arts 
The Necropolis Railway (Jim Stringer, #1)
Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube
The Lost Luggage Porter
The Blackpool Highflyer (Jim Stringer, #2)
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Baghdad 1917 Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason He arr
291 pagesAndrew Martin
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