Possessed
By: Ken Holdsworth
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444802115
Subjects: Fiction; Officers; Heirs; History; Armed Forces; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 22nd; Great Britain
Description: It is 1752 and His Britannic Majesty's sixty-gun ship-of-the-line, Indefatigable, drops anchor at Fort St. George, Madras, a trading post of the British East India Company ... Discover why Thomas Neville, an officer in the 22nd Regiment of Foot and heir to a title and estates back in England, serves on board as a common deckhand ... Follow his adventures in India, his friendship with the Empire builder, Robert Clive, his clash with the agents of Suraja Dowla, the sadistic Nawab of Bengal ... and back in England, his struggle against the sinister devil worshipper, the Reverend Edwin Cruikshank.
Notes: Originally published: s.l.: Willow Bank Publishers, 2008.