| Authors: Maryse Charles , Jean-François Charles
Full Colour Hard Cover |
Dimensions: 24.3×32.2×1.1 cm
ISBN: 2203038047
EAN: 9782203038042
Price: € 13.25
Date of publication: 29/08/2012
Late nineteenth century. Arriving in India from London, all the protagonists of this new round of India Dreams gradually take their places as a new drama takes shape …
In Calcutta, Judge Arthur Byle, appointed to the Supreme Court, has difficulty getting his wife Cybill to accept the exotic invasive nature of their new surroundings.
While, in Rajasthan, assigned to the 8th Regiment of Bengal Lancers, the young captain Redfield must endure hostility from his superior officer, while preparing to face the terrible community of followers of Kali, the strangling thugs.
While in the state of Awadh, accompanied by young Percy and Abe, Professor Sybellius, freshly excluded from schools in England for his great erotomania, exclaims loudly on top of his elephant mount : “Do you hear the silence harbinger of storms on earth as it is in the heart of men …”
All are to become enmeshed in the terror of the Thuggee.
The Thuggee cult was suppressed by the British rulers of India in the 1830s thanks to the British and their development of a methodology to tackle crime. Suddenly, the mysterious disappearances of groups of travellers were mysteries no more and it soon became clear how even large caravans could be infiltrated by apparently small groups, that were in fact acting in unison.
Eradication of the Thuggee began in the 1830s and did not stop until 1870s: this story is set in 1846 and the attacks were still going on –as was the British effort to stop them. The scenery and costumes (particularly the British army uniforms) are well rendered and when the action comes it is fast, furious and bloody.
Sadly, as this is volume 7 I can only assume the characters are ongoing ones? But a good read in itself.
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