Alan DillonAlan Dillon joined the Royal Marines in 1988. After 12 years of overseas travel, operational tours and a short spell of learning Arabic, he left the profession of soldiery for one of diplomacy, joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2000. He as served in Afghanistan, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia and Oman, interspersed by spells in various parts of Whitehall, mostly covering the Gulf and South Asia regions. The book is a result of three years research on political agent Captain Shakespear, a distant, and far more respectable, predecessor. Read More Read Less