Mary Russell Novels #7
Bantam
March 2005
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Featuring: Mary Russell, wife of Sherlock Holmes
480 pages ISBN: 0553583387 EAN: 9780553583380 Kindle: B000FC1AG6 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Itβs the second day of the new year, 1924, and Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes. But the fragile peace will be fleetingβfor a visit with Holmesβs gravely ill brother, Mycroft, brings news of an intrigue that is sure to halt their respite. Mycroft, who has ties to the highest levels of the government, has just received a strange package. The oilskin-wrapped packet contains the papers of a missing English spy named Kimball OβHaraβindeed, the same Kimball who served as the inspiration for Rudyard Kiplingβs famed Kim. An orphaned English boy turned loose in India, Kim long used his cunning to spy for the Crown. But after inexplicably withdrawing from the βGreat Gameβ of border espionage, heβs gone missing and is feared taken hostageβor even killed.
When Russell learns of Holmesβs own secret friendship with Kim some thirty years before, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But even before they arrive, danger will show its face in everything from a suspicious passenger on board their steamer to an βaccidentβ that very nearly claims their lives. Once in India, Russell and Holmes must travel incognitoβno small task for the English lady and her lanky companion. But after a twist of fate forces the couple to part ways, Russell learns that in this faraway place itβs often impossible to tell friend from foeβand that some games must be played out until their deadly end.
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