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The Deceivers

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Description for The Deceivers Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276.
In 1825 William Savage is an official in the East India Company, committed to the people of his remote district and British rule in India. During the course of his duties he witnesses a double murder and stumbles upon the society of the thuggee, a secret cult that has flourished in India for 200 years and murdered over a million people. When Savage discovers a mass grave, including the body of a recently killed British officer, his investigation leads him to infiltrate, while disguised, the cult. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Souvenir Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
278g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780285642607
SKU
V9780285642607
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About John Masters
Few other Anglo-Indian writers were so entwined in the history of modern India as John Masters. He was the fifth member of his family to serve with the British Army in India, serving in the Fourth Prince of Wales' Own Gurkha Rifles on the North-West Frontier. During World War II, he fought in the Middle East before joining General Wingate's ... Read more

Reviews for The Deceivers
He organizes and controls the swift-moving, exciting narrative with the unobtrusive brilliance of a first-class military strategist.
The Observer Simply as gripping exotic tales, his books read splendidly still... but they deserve to be read also as a revelation to the young and a reminder to the old of a vanished world.
The Tablet The story, which is ... Read more

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