Superintendent Chris Le Fanu returns to Madras from Penang where he leaves his new Straits Chinese love interest, Jenlin Koh, and a tempting new post in police intelligence there. He finds Hindu-Muslim tension on the rise in Madras, and his friends and subordinates Mohammad Habibullah and Jackson Caldicott at loggerheads as a result. A series of Muslim murders around the Presidency adds more tension. Le Fanu’s arch enemy, Inspector-General Arthur ‘The Jockey’ Jepson is reacting recklessly to the new conditions, then Le Fanu has to travel to Hyderabad where his former housekeeper and lover Roisin Mc Phedren is seriously ill. Le Fanu swings between his personal and professional challenges as a gang of revolutionaries and Hindu nationalists from North India travel south to aggravate the troubles. Le Fanu and Jepson clash head-on as the latter causes several policemen to be killed, and Le Fanu is losing support because his main civil service protectors are leaving Madras. Just as he seems close to overcoming all these problems, news arrives that Jenlin Koh is on board a ship reported missing near Ceylon. How will Le Fanu cope?
A propos de l’auteur
Brian Stoddart is a New Zealander who has lived and worked in over a dozen countries, and is a former president of La Trobe University in Australia. He has also been a higher education consultant across the world including for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the European Union. He is also broadcaster and columnist, blogger and commentator on a range of issues. A pioneer of sports studies he has presented to bodies like the International Olympic Committee and several international sports-related organisations. Brian Stoddart is also a cruise ship lecturer, photographer and keen mountain biker.
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