Escort to Shangri La

"My guide led me through a high ravine, secret and green and clouded with ferns until at length we emerged through a gap in the hills into the hidden vale of Shangri-La!"
The illustrated travel stories of Gentleman James, retired officer from His Majesty's Reds and Blacks, 2nd Division, are hugely popular in the Anglo-Franco Empire. Combining tales of daring do in exotic corners of the world with a hint of salacious interest and a generous dose of flag waving patriotism they claim to be based on the true-life memoirs of a spy for the Empire. It is more than likely that the events they recount are at best exaggerated and at worst entirely fictional. It is equally likely that none of the readers of these stories would care about that in the slightest.