Major Alan Hawke, a debonair Briton down on his luck, spends a September afternoon feeding the swans by Rousseau’s Island in Geneva and contemplating the end. A chance meeting gives him a new alliance and a mission to Delhi, where veiled beauties, diplomatic tiffins, a mysterious bungalow and the dashing Harry Hardwicke draw him into intrigue on the Indian frontier.
A breathless Victorian thriller of espionage and romance in the Raj, with the imperial attitudes of 1890. Download the free EPUB.