A secondary character is James Sinclair, the former British ambassador to Tyrgyzstan, who strongly resembles "diplomatic untouchable" Craig Murray, a real-life hard-drinking, womanizing former ambassador who also got embroiled in revealing human rights abuses in Central Asia.
A secondary character is James Sinclair, the former British ambassador to the (fictional) former Soviet republic of Tyrgyzstan. Sinclair strongly resembles "diplomatic untouchable" Craig Murray, a real-life hard-drinking, womanizing former ambassador who also got embroiled in revealing human rights abuses in Central Asia.