The Great Game

In the high days of the Raj Captain Toby Larburgh meets a stranger in Calcutta’s Great Eastern Hotel. Over a drink Toby tells of his adventures in the mountains on British India’s northern borders. A local imperial agent has died suddenly and Toby’s quest to seek the truth takes him to the distant princely state of Ghondabaur. Toby encounters a young prince desperately trying to save his father’s kingdom from brutal invaders, an ailing Rajah and a melancholy princess. He is cast into an almost medieval world of intrigue and betrayal where nothing is quite as it seems. Will Toby be able to depend on the two swaggering adventurers who command the Rajah’s garrison? Will Toby be victorious in the Great Game to safeguard the Empire’s most distant possessions? ‘Perfect for fans of Rudyard Kipling and George MacDonald Fraser’ Richard Foreman author of ‘Swords of Rome.’ Steven O’Brien is the editor of The London Magazine and a lecturer at Portsmouth University. He lives in Sussex.