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Set against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia, the novel tells the story of Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of a British soldier. As a child, he survives by begging and running small errand...
More >Set against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia, the novel tells the story of Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of a British soldier. As a child, he survives by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore, India. He occasionally works for his friend, Mahbub Ali, a horse trader who is one of the native operatives of the British secret service. Thus begins his ties to the secret service that will lead him into a life of intrigue.
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| File Size | 1.27 MB |
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| Publisher | CONNECT eBooks Classics
Sony CONNECT Inc. |
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| eBook ISBN | 9781434001030 |
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| eBook List Price | $ 1.99 |
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Rudyard Kipling
Kipling, who as a novelist dramatized the ambivalence of the British colonial experience, was born of English parents in Bombay and as a child knew Hindustani better than English. He spent an unhappy period of exile from his parents (and the Indian heat) with a harsh aunt in En...
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