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India, 1837: William Avery is a young soldier with few potential clients except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a hidden knowledge political agent removed indigenous, a genius at languages and disguises, disenchanted with the complete ethos of English rule, but who cannot avoid the challenge of your unresolved puzzle. What starts as a wild goose chase for this unlikely match - seeking to track down a missing article writer who lifts the lid on Calcutta world - becomes very much more sinister as Blake and Avery get sucked into the mystical Thugee cult and its even more ominous suppression. There are hues of Heart of Darkness, sly sources to Conan Doyle, that bring brilliantly alive the India of the 1830s with its urban squalor, attractive princely courts and bazaars, and the ambiguous presence of the English overlords - the officers of the East India Company - who have their own predatory ambitions beyond London's oversight.
