Government stocks dropped, financial panic, state of emergency declared, army mobilized, famine, mutiny - and in less than a week there was an honest to god revolution under way, just as jakes had said.
Evelyn Waugh, considered by many to be the greatest satirical novelist of his day, died on 10 April 1966 at the age of 62. Everything seemed quiet enough, but it was as much their jobs were worth to say so, with Jakes filing a thousand words of blood and thunder a day. In fact, Basil Seal Rides Again (1963) - his last published novel - received little critical or commercial attention. That day every special in Europe got orders to rush to the new revolution. Well they were pretty surprised at his office, getting a story like that from the wrong country, but they trusted Jakes and splashed it in six national newspapers. He overslept in his carriage, woke up at the wrong station, didn't know any different, got out, went straight to a hotel, and cabled off a thousand-word story about barricades in the streets, flaming churches, machine guns answering the rattle of his typewriter as he wrote. “Why, once Jakes went out to cover a revolution in one of the Balkan capitals.
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