The Spectator, March 11th, 2006
COMPANY OF SPEARS by Allan Mallinson Bantam Press, £17.99, pp. 372, ISBN 0593053419 . £14.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Sometime in 1995 Colonel Allan Mallinson came, somewhat sheepishly I thought, into my office. He was clutching a sheaf of papers that I feared would be another piece of heavyweight Ministry of Defence bureaucracy. But no, it was instead the first chapter of his first Hervey novel, A Close Run Thing. He asked if I would read it and say whether I thought it worth his while writing the rest of the book. Having rattled through it, I recommended that he forthwith aband...
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