The Deceivers - Couverture souple

Masters, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552091421 ISBN 13 : 9780552091428

Editeur : Corgi Childrens, 1973

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1825 William Savage is an official in the East India Company committed to the people of his remote district and British rule in India. He witnesses a double murder and stumbles upon the society of the thuggee, a secret cult that has flourished in India for 200 years and murdered over a million people. When Savage discovers a mass grave, including the body of a recently killed British officer, his investigation leads him to infiltrate the cult in disguise. He learns the secrets of the thuggees but finds himself immersed in their world and drawn to the ecstasy of ritual killing. Can Savage s sense of honour prevail, can he destroy the thuggees? John Masters captures the beauty, the strangeness and the splendour of India under the Raj and evokes the tensions and conflicts of India under British rule with an authority unlike any other writer.

Revue de presse

The story, which is as exciting as any I have read for a long time... Readable, vivid and spectacular. --C.P. Snow, Sunday Times

Simply as gripping exotic tales, his books read splendidly still... but they deserve to be read also as a revelation to the young and a reminder to the old of a vanished world. --The Tablet

He organizes and controls the swift-moving, exciting narrative with the unobtrusive brilliance of a first-class military strategist. --The Observer

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corgi Childrens
• Date d'édition: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552091421
• ISBN 13: 9780552091428
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible