The strangler vine
By: M.J. Carter
Publisher: Fig Tree
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780241146224; 9780241146231; 9780241966563
Subjects: East India Company; Fiction
Description: India. 1837. William Avery, a fresh young officer in the East India Company, arrives in Calcutta expecting to be seduced by its ancient traditions. Nine months later he hasn't learnt a word of Hindoostani, is in terrible debt, and longs to return home before the cholera epidemic finishes him off. A few months earlier, so rumour has it, the infamous and disgraced poet Xavier Mountstuart leaves Calcutta in order to track down the last of the remaining Thugs, a sinister secret fraternity notorious for strangling thousands of travellers. But after reaching the kingdom of Jubbulpore, Mountstuart mysteriously disappears.