No stranger to misadventure, Hopkirk has twice been held in secret-police cells - in Cuba and the Middle East - and also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. Before entering Fleet Street he served as a subaltern in the King's African Rifles - in the same battalion as Lance Corporal Idi Amin, later to emerge as the Ugandan tyrant. In the 1950s he edited the West African news magazine Drum, sister paper to its legendary South African namesake. Before turning full-time author, he was an ITN reporter and newscaster for two years, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and worked for nearly twenty years on The Times five as its chief reporter, and latterly as Middle and Far East specialist. Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely over many years in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran and Eastern Turkey.
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