![]() ![]() When Sophie arrived in the place they called Connie the men whose work was the defence of the British Empire turned out to be all too normal, all of them affected by her beauty and her rarity value, and so the story of Anyone’s Game got underway.Įxtraordinary though how there was no role for women in all-male action romances of the time. Crossing their path came refugees from the Russian Civil War. After the Ottoman Empire collapsed and the Bolsheviks took over in Russia London was worried enough to send an Expeditionary Force to the Black Sea to keep an eye on what was happening. If she overlapped with Buchanesque figures on the Bosphorus that was because it was just after the First World War. Happily Sophie Asmus, a woman not made for a part in John Buchan’s T he Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), didn’t stay in Constantinople long in my novel Anyone’s Game. ![]()
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