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Twenty-five years in the Secret Service: The recollections of a spy
It has seemed good in the sight of many people that I should place on record, in some permanent and acceptable form, the story of my eventful life. And so I am about to write a book. The task is a daring oneperhaps the most daring of the many strange and unlooked-for incidents which have marked my career of adventure. I approach it with no light heart, but rather with a keen appreciation of all its difficulties. To cater, and cater successfully, for the reading public of this fin de sicle period is an undertaking which fairly taxes all the powers of resource and experience of the most brilliant writers of our time. And I am in no sense a practised writer, much less a professional litterateur. I have spent my life working at too high a pressure, and in too excited an atmosphere, to allow of my qualifying in any way for the rle of author. Nor am I handicapped in this way alone. I am, unfortunately for my purpose, deprived of the[iv] most important of collaborators a writer ever called to his aidthe play of imagination. For me there is no such thing as romance to be indulged in here. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is what I have set myself to tell regarding all those matters with which I shall deal. There are many things, of course, to which I may not refer; but with respect to those upon which I feel at liberty to touch, one unalterable characteristic will apply all through, and that will be the absolute truthfulness of the record. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 68765
Author: Le Caron, Henri
Release Date: Aug 16, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: William Heinemann
Publication Date: 1892
Publisher Country: United Kingdom
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