The astonishing story of an unknown British military hero and spy.
By any standards, Welshman Henry Coombe-Tennant lived the most extraordinary life. His mother was a JP and a friend of Lloyd George, but also a noted medium who believed her spirit-world contacts would guide her son to become the New Messiah. After joining the Welsh Guards, Henry received two medals for outstanding bravery in World War II, escaping from a German POW camp and making it home across Nazi-occupied Europe, then fighting behind enemy lines with the French Resistance. After the bloody 1958 revolution in Iraq, he became "our man in Baghdad" for the British Secret Service, before spending the last 30 years of his life as a Benedictine monk.
Full of unexpected twists and turns, this exciting account of Henry Coombe-Tennant's life makes for fascinating reading.