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Putnam
March 2015
On Sale: March 31, 2015
Featuring: William Avery
ISBN: 0399171673
EAN: 9780399171673
Kindle: B00KWG66IM
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Set in the untamed wilds of nineteenth-century colonial
India, a dazzling historical thriller introducing an
unforgettable investigative pair.
India, 1937: William Avery is a young soldier with few
prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India;
Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a
genius at languages and disguises, disenchanted with the
whole ethos of British rule, but who cannot resist the
challenge of an unresolved mystery. What starts as a wild
goose chase for this unlikely pair—trying to track down a
missing writer who lifts the lid on Calcutta society—becomes
very much more sinister as Blake and Avery get sucked into
the mysterious Thuggee cult and its even more ominous
suppression. There are shades of Heart of Darkness, sly references to
Conan Doyle, that bring brilliantly to life the India of the
1830s with its urban squalor, glamorous princely courts and
bazaars, and the ambiguous presence of the British
overlords—the officers of the East India Company—who have
their own predatory ambitions beyond London's oversight.
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