Back Seat Driver by Oliver Knowles

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These are the memoirs of dying breed - those British officers who served in the Indian Army and the British Colonial Service, and later worked for the United Nations. A lieutenant-colonel in Burma at the age of 24, the author joined the Kenya Provincial Administration in 1949. He transferred to the Kenya Treasury in 1955 and remained there after independence. He was secretary of the 1967 public enquiry in the Kenyan maize industry, and in the same year became Acting Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Finance. He left Kenya in 1969 and joined the United Nations, where he served for fourteen years as an adviser and consultant. Among his many assignments for the UN he was Deputy Team Leader of the very successful UN advisory Team which help set up ASEAN (the Association of South East Asia Nations).