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The Deceivers

John Masters author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Profile Books Ltd

Published:1st May '14

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A twentieth century classic novel of colonialism in India

We are publishing The Deceivers in our Story-Tellers series in order to introduce John Masters to a new generation of readers.In 1825 William Savage is an official in the East India Company, committed to the people of his remote district and British rule in India. During the course of his duties he witnesses a double murder and stumbles upon the society of the thuggee, a secret cult that has flourished in India for 200 years and murdered over a million people. When Savage discovers a mass grave, including the body of a recently killed British officer, his investigation leads him to infiltrate, while disguised, the cult. He learns their secrets but finds himself drawn to the ecstasy of ritual killing. Can his sense of honour prevail, can he destroy the thuggees?

He organizes and controls the swift-moving, exciting narrative with the unobtrusive brilliance of a first-class military strategist. -- The Observer
Simply as gripping exotic tales, his books read splendidly still... but they deserve to be read also as a revelation to the young and a reminder to the old of a vanished world. -- The Tablet
The story, which is as exciting as any I have read for a long time... Readable, vivid and spectacular. -- C.P. Snow * Sunday Times *

ISBN: 9780285642607

Dimensions: 208mm x 130mm x 20mm

Weight: 200g

288 pages

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