historical, funny, well written

This book is a big slap. Often even autobiographies of lives that deserve to be told are difficult to read. We are not all writers born! Here it's the opposite. Hussein Gaafar has a style, a real one. It takes you and carries you into the Egypt of the 30s, where you will find the protagonists as Sadat, the Muslim Brotherhood, ...

Traveling the Middle East this Egyptian nationalist will make us discover Iraq at the time, with lAfghanistan already the germ of the current situation. Beyond the colorful adventures of the spy, we have a true during this geopolitical region.

Yes, because his adventures are picturesque and which spoils nothing they are described with humor and a lot of self-derision.