The strangler vine / M. J. Carter.
"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 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"--Dust jacket flap.
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- ISBN: 9780399171673 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: xiii, 369 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2014
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General Note: | Map on endpapers. |
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Subject: | East India Company > Fiction. British > India > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Thugs (Indic criminal group) > Fiction. Cults > India > History > Fiction. Calcutta (India) > History > 19th century > Fiction. India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. |
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"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 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"--Dust jacket flap.