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By the time Jim Gilruth returns to Pakistan - 20 years after he dished up as a legislation officer in a tiny town near Lahore - colonial guideline has given way to Pakistani officialdom. Jim's weird and enigmatic quest is painfully involved in the brutal clash of the old and the new - but why he has been chosen as the device of coercion remains a enigma. Then the information on a half-forgotten murder that Jim adjudicated way back when begin to come back in every their bewildering nuances, and in an eerie repetition of the circumstances of your era ago he discovers himself powerless to save the life of your good man - or to bring a murderer to justice. Praised by critics for his clean prose style, characterisation, and the strong sense of put in place his books, Philip Maitland Hubbard was created in Reading, Berkshire and brought up in the Channel Islands. He was informed at Oxford, where he acquired the Newdigate Reward for British verse in 1933. From 1934 until its disbandment in 1947 he dished up with the Indian Civil service, then for the Uk Council, before retiring to are a freelance copy writer. He added to a number of publications, including Punch, and had written 16 books for men and women and two children's books. He lived in Dorset and Scotland, and a lot of his novels get on his desire for and knowledge of rural pursuits and folk religion.
