Our Man In Kuwait - Louise Burfitt-Dons

Our Man In Kuwait

By: Louise Burfitt-Dons

Hardcover | 20 November 2022

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From world chemical weapons expert, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon,  'A brilliant marriage of fact and fiction'


??Our Man In Kuwait is based around real events. Louise Burfitt-Dons was born and grew up in a country threatened with invasion by Iraq at any time. Her father was  Preventative Health Officer for the Kuwait Oil Company. At the end of 1960 Ian Fleming visited the country and they became close friends.


Kuwait 1960. With Soviet backing Iraq plans to invade.

Gordon Carlisle lives in the expat community of Ahmadi with little to worry about other than when to next don his dinner jacket.

When enlisted by an MI6 agent everything changes.

Even marriage to his beautiful new wife Anita breaks down as he becomes a suspect in a chain of deaths in the Protectorate.

Ian Fleming's time in Kuwait is recorded at first hand as Britain prepares to meet the Iraqi forces head on with Operation Vantage.

Our Man In Kuwait is a colonial-era thriller set against the background of big power conflict. The ultimate timepiece tinderbox of sun, sex and spies.

Industry Reviews

A brilliant marriage of fact and fiction-Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE, world chemical weapons expert and author of Chemical Warrior

Only a novelist with Louise Burfitt-Dons's colourful childhood and universal experience, (born in Kuwait, lived in many places between Kent and Australia) could brilliantly mange to embroider factual geographic,natural, historic and commercial details on the fictional fabric. Adel Darwish.

Romance, thrill, the spy who came from the heat, James Bond of Arabia The Middle East News

A swirling spy thriller.... Ian Fleming's connection with Middle Eastern spies... life as it was in Kuwait as the British Empire era drew to an end London Loves Business Books

Riveting. The Independent

Compelling and credible. A page turner. Mail on Sunday

Wonderfully written thriller. Brilliant constructed plot. Ellie Midwood, USA Today bestselling author of The Girl From Berlin

Wonderful and gentle thriller. I loved everything about the book- ROB FORD

A great mix of small town politics and big power plays-Karen Smythe, Library Journal

Captivating-Toni Obsorne Reviews

Mulled the drama over for days. Thrilling-Eunice, NETGALLEY

Intriguing mix of historical fact and fiction to keep you wanting to learn more-JACKIE, NETGALLEY

Fascinating. A terrific story-BOOKSTR

It kept me up way past my normal bedtime, I had to finish it-Laurie Robertson

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