Spencer D Allan

1986 Canada. Old friends from Baluchistan were visiting the narrator and Alice at their Wyoming home when they learnt some disquieting news. A couple of followers have gone missing in Quebec. Worse the girl is being sought by a Chinese Mongolian whom she had escaped from a couple of years previou...

The narrator and his wife Alice accept a tradding mission from their oftime Iranian employer, Nejad now in exile in Brisbane. The job is to set up deals with independent spice growers who are producing older orignal varieties of the various spices. These are intended for the gourmet markets in Ja...

The narrator and his wife are offered the job of leading an archeological expedition in the empty derst north of Mali witht the opportunity to visit the legendary Timbuktu. They are last minute replacements for the French security leaders who were kiiled in a plane crash. The couple were recommend...

it is 1980. Visiting the narrator's parents in England whilst on their way home to Wyoming, the narrator and his wife Alice hear that their friend Alex is missing in Chad. He was on his first mission for his employer an American oil company there to meet an old French colleague in a supposedly joi...

1982 the two Congos. Alice and the narrator accept a commisson to provide security for an oil prospecting expedition for an American company into both Congos, the orignal Heart of Darkness. The prospecting is to be carried out up the huge wide river tributies of the Congo river which travels down f...

1988 Haiti. The narrator and his wife Alice accompany their friends Beatrice and her doctor husband Gordon to a medical conference on Haiti. This to be at first a week's holiday and then another week of silver prospecting in the northern hills. It all sounded fun especially as both couple looked f...

2001. Alice is dead of a sudden stroke at their Wyoming home. Grieving for his wife, the narrator accompanied by his old mate, Alex carries on with their intended trip to Pakistani Baluchistan. They intend to see their old friends in some villages they helpd to settle with displaced Afghans and Balu...

The narrator and his mate Alex set out from England to India on their Harley Davidson motorbikes on a grand road trip. They reach Iran just as the Shah is starting to totter and the revolt of the ayatollah and his mullahs is in progress.In the wild east of the country, Baluchistan, they meet two Ame...