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Based on the author's own experience as an official in the United kingdom Intelligence and filled with the most carefully observed detail of the individuals, places and halloween costumes of the Levant, The Mule on the Minaret is a long, colourful, fascinating story of wartime brains centred on Beirut and Baghdad. It's the story, generally, of Noel Reid, a professor of Background and School of thought, (married, however, not very gladly) who is placed in 1941 to the Intelligence unit functioning in the Lebanon. Here, he joins causes with Nigel Farrar, supervisor of MI5 in Beirut, and is also soon involved with complex programs to suborn hand-picked Lebanese for service in the Allied cause, mainly to relay misleading information to the Germans in Istanbul. Woven into this sophisticated business is also the story of his turbulent affair with Diana, a young female who works for Farrar. The whole of Noel Reid's wartime ventures have emerged in retrospect as he revisits the landscape seventeen years later and meets again both Farrar and Diana. For these people, the war has brought a fresh, completely satisfying life; for himself he can at least say: "It is not difficult to live contentedly once you have realized that there surely is any such thing in the world as happiness, even though you have lost it, and know that you will never obtain it." Alec Waugh, 1898-1981, was a United kingdom novelist delivered in London and educated at Sherborne General public College, Dorset. Waugh's first novel, The Loom of Children (1917), is a semi-autobiographical profile of public institution life that brought on some controversy at that time and resulted in his expulsion. Waugh was the only boy ever before to be expelled through the Old Shirburnian Modern culture. Despite setting up this record, Waugh went on to be the successful writer of over 50 works, and lived in many spectacular places throughout his life which later became the configurations for a few of his texts. He was also a noted wine beverages connoisseur and campaigned to help make the cocktail party a normal feature of 1920s communal life.
