A Game With Dice

About the Book

When the Nazis invade Poland, a small boy and his widowed mother flee through Europe to Baghdad, where the boy´s uncle is the royal doctor and his aunt a glittering participant in Baghdad´s high society. He becomes a playmate of the young king, eats off gold and learns Arabic. Sent to a boarding school in Egypt, he befriends street boys and learns knife fighting. On his mother´s remarriage to an Englishman, the boy, now a teenager, is packed off to an English public school, to a new name, a new language and a stint of National Service; a road that will eventually lead him to Cambridge University.

About the Author

Michael Arnold was born in Lodz, Poland, educated in the Middle East and England, holds degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and is a former Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He has lived in Iraq, Egypt, Chile, French West Africa, Panama, Honduras, the Arabian Gulf, the Sudan, and the USA. He has worked for international oil companies, been a commercial advisor to a Japanese Trading House and a political advisor to the American Senate. He speaks eight languages fluently and collects dictionaries for a hobby. He is married with three children, six grandchildren and a cat, and currently lives in Hampshire.