The strangler vine / M.J. Carter.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Carter, Miranda, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• British--India--Fiction.
• Missing persons--Fiction.
• Cults--Fiction.
• East India Company--Fiction.
• India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Fiction.

Genre:

• Historical fiction.
• Mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

xiii, 369 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2015.

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.

Notes:

• "A novel"--Jacket.
• Originally published: United Kingdom : Fig Tree, 2014.
• Maps on lining papers.
• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9780399171673
• 0399171673

OCLC:

884139219