Miles Morland is an adventurer He was born in India to a naval father & a dangerously glamorous mother When his parents divorced Miles followed his mother to Tehran which they had to leave in a hurry & on to Baghdad which they also had to leave in a hurry after the 1958 revolution His early years were filled with desert journeys riots perilous near-misses & adventures worthy of Kipling after which he was sent to England for a proper' education Later following years of shouting down a Wall Street telephone Miles threw in his job bought a giant motorbike & set off to discover things in places others did not want to go Deported at gunpoint from Romania saved from assassination in Ethiopia by a lucky plane crash riding an Enfield Bullet through Ooty & following Che over the Andes
- Miles has a knack of finding trouble Brilliantly observed & told with unique humour Cobra in the Bath will have you crying with laughter & scared out of your wits