The Man Who Would Be King 2004

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The true story of a brazen American adventurer who briefly proclaimed himself Prince of Ghor and Lord of the Hazarahs in 1838 by planting an American flag on the Hindu Kush chronicles the life of the soldier, spy, naturalist, and doctor Joseph Harlan. 30,000 first printing.

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Books by Ben Macintyre:

• A Spy Among Friends (2014)
• Operation Mincemeat (2010)
• Double Cross (2012)
• The Man Who Would Be King (2004)
• Agent Zigzag (2008)