The 8:55 to Baghdad: From London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie
by Andrew Eames


  
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Book Description

In Andrew Eames’s The 8:55 to Baghdad, the author combines his 2002 train journey from London to Iraq with a look back at the life of mystery writer Agatha Christie, who took the Orient Express on the same 3,000 mile journey in 1928. (Fans of the book or movie Murder on the Orient Express will find much to explain its genesis here.) Eames is a delightful travel companion – well read, personable, not whiny, able to remain calm in the face of late trains, and overlook rude behavior and bad food. He revels, as all good travelers do, in good company, good food, and interesting scenery. Since Eames’s journey took him through the Balkans and into Baghdad on the eve of the second Gulf War, there’s enough here to keep political science junkies interested as well. I also enjoyed running across the occasional Britishism in Eames’s writing: describing the Serbian army, he says that they were “put on the back foot straight away,” and talks about people “under the cosh of the Turks.”