The extraordinary untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare forever
Henry Hemming is the author of five works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times bestseller M, the Dolman Travel Award-shortlisted Misadventure in the Middle East and Churchill's Iceman, a New York Times bestseller. He has written for the Economist, The Sunday Times, FT Magazine and the Washington Post, among many others. He lives in London with his two children.
Hemming makes Geoffrey Pyke a fascinating object of study
*Columbus Post Dispatch*
This admirable and thoroughly enjoyable book should rescue a
weirdly original and innovative talent from oblivion
*Sunday Times*
Hemming has told his story in a biography that reads wonderfully
like an adventure story and looks set to restore to Pyke the fame
he deserves
*Guardian*
This is a fascinating biography […] Hemming succeeds in celebrating
the achievements of this true original
*Mail on Sunday*
It is as if he had been invented by G. K. Chesterton and given
posthumous fame by John le Carré – which underlines the
extraordinary accomplishment of his actual biographer Henry
Hemming
*Sir Michael Holroyd*
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