The Lotus and the Wind
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2014
288 pages
978-0-285-64263-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Lotus and the Wind opens in 1879, when Lieutenant Robin Savage is serving in the second Anglo-Afghan war as Britain and the Russian Empire engage in the Great Game to decide Afghanistan's future. Unjustly accused of cowardice, Lieutenant Savage joins the Secret Service and must unravel the mystery of "Atlar", the word written by an Afghan stranger in his own blood to thwart the ambitions of Tsarist Russia. He sets out with a faithful Gurkha orderly to the furthest frontier of the British Empire.
Reviews / Votes
Mr Masters's descriptions of the Indian scene are as highly coloured as ever and his narrative as exciting and dashing. -- Evening Standard Not many novels so good as this are being written today. -- Country Life To describe a book so nerve-thrilling, so packed with action and incident, so taut with feeling is difficult. -- Daily TelegraphAll prices
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-0-285-64263-8 (9780285642638)
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John Masters
The Lotus and the Wind
Book
05/2014
Souvenir Press Ltd
€32.37
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Person
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 Chindits in Burma. He rose to the rank of General before retiring from the army in 1948. John Masters published 25 books before his death in 1983.
