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Nigel Seed was born in Morecambe, England, into a military family. His father was a serving officer and both his grandfathers served in the First World War. He grew up hearing his father s tales of adventure during the Second World War, and this kindled his interest in both military history and storytelling. He received a patchy education, as he and his family inevitably followed service postings from one base to another. Perhaps the need to constantly change schools contributed to his odd ability to link apparently unconnected facts and events in order to weave his stories. Following formal education, he not surprisingly joined the Army, serving with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in many parts of the world, including several tours in Northern Ireland, Germany, Canada, Zimbabwe, Cyprus and the Falkland Islands.
Within his civil service career he also held senior managerial posts in the British Home Office, and the Department of Justice, including a period making himself distinctly unpopular as one of the directors of the now defunct UK ID Card programme. Nigel is married with two adult children, and now lives in Spain - half way up a mountain with views across orange groves to the Mediterranean. The warmer weather helps him to cope with frostbite injuries sustained in Canada, years before, when taking part in the rescue effort for a downed helicopter and its crew on a frozen lake.
Reviewed by Kimberlee J Benart for Readers' Favorite
No Road to Khartoum: From Dublin to the Sands of the Desert (Part I of The Michael McGuire Trilogy) is a sweeping epic military fiction by Nigel Seed. Set in Egypt and the Sudan from 1883 to 1898, it recounts major events of the Sudan Campaign, beginning with the massacre of an Egyptian force and the later fall of Khartoum to the Mahdi, and ending with the retaking of Khartoum years later. The story is told through the eyes of Irishman Michael McGuire, who is only seventeen when he enters the British Army rather than go to prison for stealing a loaf of bread. Sent to Egypt and the Sudan, he learns Arabic, becomes part of the Camel Corps, and works with Kitchener’s Bedouins to try to rescue General Gordon in Khartoum. But, that is only the beginning of his many daring and nearly deadly adventures. Seed also provides a chapter on the actual historical facts and characters.
If you’re a fan of historical fiction with a complex and well-paced plot that will keep you engaged from start to finish, No Road to Khartoum is for you. Michael McGuire is a perfect military protagonist. He quickly proves himself an intelligent, courageous, and capable soldier and is rapidly promoted for his ingenuity and valor. Michael remains in Egypt for both personal and professional reasons, starting a family in Cairo while he builds an intelligence and reconnaissance unit which continues to see dangerous action in Egypt and the Sudan. Seed’s narrative is flowing and descriptive. The characters are three-dimensional and believable. I didn’t want to put this one down and look forward to the next book in the trilogy.
