WIRE — You may be aware that from 1997 I have had the acquaintance of the convicted serial murderer Charles Sobhraj. How and why I made his acquaintance is another story, which of course is told in detail in my memoir Hawk and Hyena, which contains the episode in which Charles invited me to get involved in selling arms from the ammunition dumps of the former Soviet republics to organisations all round the world, including the Taliban
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