Two main storylines run through Book 4
of The Speedicut Papers: Speedicuts quest to identify the traitor
within the British establishment, who has already occasioned
him considerable personal problems, and his involuntary and often
disastrous involvement in the geopolitical affairs of the Emperors
of Austria, Mexico and the French and the future Emperor of Germany. Speedicuts behind-the-scenes revelations in Book 4 shed a new
light on the fall of the Mexican Empire, the Franco-Prussian War,
the Paris Commune and a great deal
more besides.
There are such things as vampires … and the records of the past,
such as The Speedicut Papers, give proof enough for sane people.
Bram Stoker
If this book was a horse it would be by Rider Haggard
out of Dorian Gray and I say that advisedly.
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
The Speedicut Papers prove that when you want to fool the world
all that you have to do is tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
Bodice rippers dont come much more ripping.
Georgette Heyer
关于作者
After serving time at Oxford University and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Christopher Joll spent his formative years as an officer in The Life Guards, an experience from which he has never really recovered. On leaving the Army, Joll worked first in investment banking, but the boredom of City life led him to switch careers and become an arms salesman. After ten years of dealing with tin pot dictators in faraway countries, he moved – perhaps appropriately – into public relations where, in this new incarnation, he had to deal with dictators of an altogether different type. From his earliest days, Joll has written articles, features, short stories and reportage. One such piece of writing led to an early brush with notoriety when an article he had penned anonymously in 1974 for a political journal ended up as front page national news and resulted in a Ministerial inquiry. In 2012 Joll wrote the text for Uniquely British: A Year in the Life of the Household Cavalry, an illustrated account of the Household Cavalry from the Royal Wedding to the Diamond Jubilee, and in 2018 he published The Spoils of War. His yet to be published memoires, Anecdotal Evidence, promises to cause considerable consternation in certain quarters should it ever appear in print. Since leaving the Army in 1975, Joll has been involved in devising and managing charity fund-raising events. This interest started in 1977 with The Silver Jubilee Royal Gifts Exhibition at St Jamess Palace and The Royal Cartoons Exhibition at the Press Club. In subsequent years, he co-produced Jos Carreras & Friends, a one-night Royal Gala Concert at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Serenade for a Princess, a Royal Gala Concert at the Banqueting House, Whitehall; and Concert for a Prince, a Royal Gala Concert staged at Windsor Castle (the first such event to be held there following the post-fire restoration). More recently, Joll has focused on devising, writing, directing and sometimes producing events primarily for military charities. These include in various different roles the Household Cavalry Pageant (2007); the Chelsea Pageant (2008); the Diamond Jubilee Parade in the Park (2012); the British Military Tournament (2010-2013); the Gurkha Bicentenary Pageant (2015); the Waterloo Bicentenary National Service of Commemoration & Parade at St Pauls Cathedral (2015); the Shakespeare 400 Memorial Concert (2016); The Patrons Lunch (2016), the official London event to mark The Queens 90th Birthday and The Great War Symphony to be premiered in 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall. In 2017, Joll was appointed Regimental Historian of the Household Cavalry.
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