Cocktails with Molotov and Tea with Mr. Lee by Bernard Brown

Illustrations by Brian Lovelock

ISBN 978-0-9941376-3-0
114PP - 208mm x 142mm
10 illustrations

Part autobiography, part memoir-in-verse, Cocktails with Molotov and Tea with Mr. Lee visits some of the dingier corrugations of world history, from Brown’s childhood in Suffolk, England, where he attended school with London’s notorious Kray Brothers, to intrigues in post-war Russia, true life espionage in the Levant, and Brown’s military service in South-East Asia.

It recalls Brown’s skirmishes with such formidable characters as Margaret Thatcher, author Anthony Burgess, and the ex-Premier of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew (who prompted Brown’s hasty departure from the country).

It is an entertaining romp through thirty years or so of tumultuous world history.

“My supervisor for the criminal papers was the wonderful Bernard Brown. There was something dashing and intriguing about Bernard. He was funny, he wrote poetry, he had an edge to him which made him un...