James Barr is the author of Setting the Desert on Fire. During the research for A Line in the Sand he was a Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He lives in London.
"An outstanding, revealing, and disturbing glimpse behind the
closed doors of power politics."
*Booklist*
"Lively and entertaining. . . . [Barr] has thrown some light on
hitherto unexplored corners."
*Financial Times*
"Starred review. Barr’s extensive archival research, evocative
historical vignettes, and a superb sense of narrative pacing
produce a first-rate work."
*Publishers Weekly*
"Combines the narrative pace of a spy novel with meticulous
archival research."
*Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs: A History*
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