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The strangler vine

Summary: "India, 1837. William Avery is a young soldier with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a genius at languages and disguises, disenchanted with the whole ethos of British rule, but who cannot resist the challenge of an unresolved mystery. What starts as a wild goose chase for this unlikely pair--trying to track down a missing writer who lifts the lid on Calcutta society--becomes very much more sinister as Blake and Avery get sucked into the mysterious Thuggee cult and its even more ominous suppression"--Dust jacket flap.

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  • ISBN: 9780399171673 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: regular print
    xiii, 369 pages : map ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Map on endpapers.
Subject: East India Company -- Fiction
British -- India -- Fiction
Missing persons -- Fiction
Thugs (Indic criminal group) -- Fiction
Cults -- India -- History -- Fiction
Calcutta (India) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

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  • 6 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.

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Smithers Public Library F CAR (Text) 35101000454558 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

Summary: "India, 1837. William Avery is a young soldier with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a genius at languages and disguises, disenchanted with the whole ethos of British rule, but who cannot resist the challenge of an unresolved mystery. What starts as a wild goose chase for this unlikely pair--trying to track down a missing writer who lifts the lid on Calcutta society--becomes very much more sinister as Blake and Avery get sucked into the mysterious Thuggee cult and its even more ominous suppression"--Dust jacket flap.
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