Simon Chandler

Letters From Baghdad is the story of a true original-Gertrude Bell-sometimes called the female "Lawrence of Arabia." Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I.

A brave hobbit and his companions set off on a quest to take an evil ring of power to be destroyed.

Wallace Ritchie, an American vacationer in London, doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true. He thinks the intrigue erupting around him is part of an audience-participation theater event. Yet the world's fate depends on this gullible goofus who can't even spell CIA.