'Brilliant' ? Patrick Leigh Fermor, Daily Telegraph

'There can be few more fascinating subjects, or few authors better qualified to write about it' ? Fitzroy Maclean, Independent

'Immensely readable and magisterially detached. A gripping and impressive narrative of adventure and war' ? Financial Times

'Hopkirk's brilliant and engrossing account remains the classic text on how to handle the various and often dangerous people who inhabit the region, fill of tips and warnings for the Game's current players.' ? BBC History Magazine

'Fans of political history and adventure are in for a treat as publishing house John Murray reissues its Peter Hopkirk series' ? Siân Gibson, Geographical Magazine
Peter Hopkirk travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set: Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, Russia, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger to misadventure, he was twice held in secret police cells and has was also hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into many languages. All six of his books are available from John Murray: THE GREAT GAME, ON SECRET SERVICE EAST OF CONSTANTINOPLE, SETTING THE EAST ABLAZE, TRESPASSERS ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD, FOREIGN DEVILS ON THE SILK ROAD and QUEST FOR KIM.