Envoy: A Diplomatic Journey By Nicholas Barrington

Nicholas Barrington began his dramatic diplomatic career with a post in Afghanistan at a time when the country was barely known to the world’s headline writers. The narrative is woven with compelling insights on the countries to which he was posted and which are focal points of international attention: Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt and Pakistan. Serving in Iran during the political storm of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, he had to navigate his way through the drama of a new political order, while his time in Cairo coincided with the assassination of President Sadat. In his rich and varied career, Barrington served as High Commissioner to Pakistan, a subject on which he writes authoritatively