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allied defeat
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Author_Margalit Fox
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central turkey
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Gallipoli
great war
inspiring war stories
John Le Carre
mesopotamian front
Operation Mincemeat
ottoman empire
ouija board
siege of kut
spiritualism
stories of friendship
supernatural trickery
survivors of forced march
twentieth century mysticism
world war one
Product details
- ISBN 9781788162722
- Weight: 273g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jun 2022
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join forces. To stave off boredom, Jones makes a handmade Ouija board and holds fake séances for fellow prisoners. One day, an Ottoman official approaches him with a query: could Jones contact the spirits to find a vast treasure rumoured to be buried nearby? Jones, a lawyer, and Hill, a magician, use the Ouija board - and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception-to build a trap for their captors that will lead them to freedom.
The Confidence Men is a nonfiction thriller featuring strategy, mortal danger and even high farce - and chronicles a profound but unlikely friendship.
A winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Margalit Fox trained as a linguist and was a senior writer at The New York Times. As a former member of the newspaper's celebrated Obituary News Department, she wrote the front-page public sendoffs of some of the leading cultural figures of our age. She has written three previous books, Conan Doyle for the Defence, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, and Talking Hands, and lives in Manhattan with her husband, writer and critic George Robinson.
