Honorable Company: A Novel of India Before the Raj (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780553380446)

In a rousing follow-up to the critically acclaimed A Close Run Thing, Captain Matthew Hervey makes the hazardous sea voyage to India for what the Duke of Wellington has called "deuced tricky work."

As Wellington's new aide-de-camp, Matthew's covert mission will embroil him in the jostling of native potentates and England's encroaching East India Company -- both threatened by lawless bands of horsemen bent on plunder and massacre.

When Matthew's journeying leads him to the small key state of Chintal, he thinks himself close to his objective. But at the rajah's sumptuous court, he discovers that war in India is waged as often with money and spies as with the clear-cut tactics of the battlefield -- with battles won through devious conversations and murderous perfidy. And Matthew, torn between his honor and his destiny, is drawn deeper into the court's serpentine coils than he ever dreamed....

Author: Allan Mallinson
ISBN-10: 0553380443
ISBN-13: 9780553380446
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2001
Pages: 322
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.96w x 0.69d