Finalist for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award
Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014
India‚ 1937: William Avery is a young soldier rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native‚ a genius at languages and disguises who cannot resist an unresolved mystery. What starts as a wild goose chase for this unlikely pair — trying to track down a missing writer — becomes much more sinister as Blake and Avery get sucked into the mysterious Thuggee cult and its even more ominous suppression.