β Scribed by M.J. Carter
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014
FINALIST FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER AWARD
Set in the untamed wilds of nineteenth-century colonial India, a dazzling historical thriller introducing an unforgettable investigative pair.**
India, 1837: 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 pairβtrying to track down a missing writer who lifts the lid on Calcutta societyβbecomes very much more sinister as Blake and Avery get sucked into the mysterious Thuggee cult and its even more ominous suppression.
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