Would you go to Uzbekistan?
In 2002, British career diplomat Craig Murray was delighted when he rceived his first ambassadorial appointment which happened to be to Uzbekistan at the beginning of the ‘War on Terror’ and he threw himself into his new responsibilities.
Soon he found himself charged with 20 allegations of misconduct and seriously ill before his marraige broke up and his diplomatic career crashed to a halt. All this is told in his book “Murder In Samarkand” which I have just finished reading and reviewed here.
I bought the book – together with a tourist guide – in preparation for a forthcoming holiday in Uzbekistan to see the magnificent art and architecture of the Silk Road cities of Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand.