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Alan Judd aka Alan Petty (born in 1946) is a former soldier and diplomat who now works as a security analyst and writer in the United Kingdom. He writes both books and articles, regularly contributing to a number of publications, including The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. His books include both fiction and non-fiction titles, with his novels often drawing on his military background.

Fiction Titles

• A Breed of Heroes (1981 - adapted by Charles Wood as a BBC television film in 1996)
• Short of Glory (1984)
• The Noonday Devil (1987)
• Tango (1989)
• The Devil's Own Work (1991)
• Legacy (2001)
• The Kaiser's Last Kiss (2003)
• Dancing with Eva (2006)

Non fiction Titles

• Ford Madox Ford (1990)
• First World War Poets (Character Sketches) (1997)
• The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming And the Founding of the Secret Service (1999)

Awards

In 1991, he won a Guardian Fiction Award for his book The Devil's Own Work.

External links

• A Brief Biography
• Biography from David Higham Associates

From Wikiquote

Alan Judd (born 1946) is a British author and novelist, and a former soldier and diplomat.

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The Noonday Devil (1987)

ISBN 0091681804.

• Too much philosophy makes men mad.
  • Page 21.

• In Robert's experience there were two kinds of classicists, the mad and the disconcertingly sane.
  • Page 48.

• He turned then to Job, again using the King James's version. The translation from the Hebrew was narrower than the Greek but seemed more essential. It was the simple strong prose of men who believed and who were unafraid to name things.
  • Page 197.

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