First published 2015
Geoffrey Household opens his life story with characteristic candor, examining five decades that took him from Oxford classrooms to dangerous intelligence work across wartime Europe and the Middle East. The acclaimed thriller writer traces his path through international business and finance before World War II pulled him into British intelligence operations in Greece, Romania, and beyond. Household reveals how his perilous postings later shaped the suspense novels that made his reputation. He reflects on balancing creative work with family life, exploring what drove him to transform real adventures into fiction. The author who spent over fifty years crafting more than twenty novels and story collections now turns his attention inward, offering readers both memoir and meditation on the writer's craft. This autobiography captures a restless spirit who lived as adventurously as the characters he created, moving between continents and careers with equal determination.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, adventure, autobiography, biography-memoir, espionage
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: memoir, real-life-adventure
Setting: Europe, Greece, Middle East, Romania
Period: World War II
247 pages · Kindle Edition · Open Road Media