It’s the start of the New Year, 1924, and Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes. But the fragile peace is fleeting, for a visit to Holmes` gravely ill brother, Mycroft, brings tidings of a new intrigue and sets the pair on their most dangerous exploit yet…
Mycroft received a strange package that contained the papers of a missing English spy named Kimball O’Hara – indeed, the same Kimball who served as the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s famed Kim. After using his cunning to spy for the Crown for many years, Kim has inexplicably withdrawn from the “Great Game” of border espionage. It is feared that he has been taken hostage… or even killed.
Having known Kim some thirty years ago, Holmes embarks on a search for the missing operative – which proves to be the start of a voyage that takes the duo on a perilous journey through sun-drenched India. Traveling incognito as touring magicians, they gather any information they can find. But when a twist of fate forces the couple to part ways, Russell learns that in this faraway place it`s often impossible to tell friend from foe, and that some games must be played out until their deadly end....
An unpredictable and masterfully plotted mystery that brings history to vivid life, The Game is an adventure you won’t want to end.
‘The best King has yet devised for her strong-willed heroine… The sights, smells and ideas of India make interesting, evocative reading in this exotic masala of a book’ Publishers’ Weekly
‘Fabulous reading, breathless excitement, and the myriad pleasures of watching great minds at work’
Booklist
‘Mary Russell is never less than fascinating company’ Los Angeles Times
‘Intelligent, witty, complex and atmospheric. Spell binding’ The Washington Post
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