It was the Road which caused the trouble. It usually is the road. That and a reigning prince who was declared by his uncle secretly to have sold his country to the British, and a half-crazed priest from out beyond the borders of Afghanistan, who sat on a slab of stone by the river-bank and preached a djehad. But above all it was the road-Linforth's road. It came winding down from the passes, over slopes of shale; it was built with wooden galleries along the precipitous sides of cliffs; it snaked treacherously further and further across the rich valley of Chiltistan towards the Hindu Kush, until the people of that valley could endure it no longer. Then suddenly from Peshawur the wires began to flash their quiet and ominous messages.
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Alfred Edward Wooley Mason was born in 1865. He was educated at Dulwich College before being sent up to Oxford University. Once his formal education was completed, Mason went on to become an actor. He began his writing career with historical fiction and then moved into the arena of politics, becoming a Liberal Member of Parliament for Coventry in 1906. But his love of writing carried on and Mason developed his style to incorporate detective fiction, introducing one of the earliest fictional detectives, Inspector Hanaud, the Gallic counterpart to Sherlock Holmes. His detective fiction contains material clues and spontaneity. Throughout the course of his life he produced over thirty titles. A E W Mason died in 1948.
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Mason is the author, for those of you who don't recognize him, of the Four Feathers that made it into the movies a few years back. I picked this up expecting to grit my teeth and bear the racism that one expects from 19th century gentlemen. While this is by no means from the point of view of a native of India, this story of a prince educated in England and then thrown back into a country he regards as barbaric, and the prejudice he finds there ,even from the woman he loves, makes it almost as thought provoking as A Passage to India. The adventure is less important than the ties of blood and prejudice that motivate the main characters.
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This exciting story is set in British India. The action, fighting, secret agents, etc. remind me of an earlier version of a Tom Clancy book. Definitely not pc so only buy this if you don't mind the imperial mindset of the day.Other books like this are The Drum and The Young Rajah: Adventures in India.
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I have been trying out various free books on my Kindle, and have been reading a lot of Pre-WWII popular fiction just to see what was popular then. I have landed on some clunkers, but this book is very well written, in a style not unlike A. J. Cronin. Definitely worth trying.
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Shere Ali, Violet Oliver, Ahmed Ismail, Captain Phillips, Sir John, Colonel Dewes, Shere All, Sybil Linforth, Futteh Ali Shah, Safdar Khan, Dick Linforth, Wafadar Nazim, Rahat Mian, Hindu Kush, Political Officer, Colonel Sahib, Government House, Prince of Chiltistan, Delhi Gate, Chief Commissioner, Khan of Chiltistan, Abdulla Mahommed, Major Dewes, Colonel Joe, Sussex Downs New!
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Shere Ali, Violet Oliver, Ahmed Ismail, Captain Phillips, Sir John, Colonel Dewes, Shere All, Sybil Linforth, Futteh Ali Shah, Safdar Khan, Dick Linforth, Wafadar Nazim, Rahat Mian, Hindu Kush, Political Officer, Colonel Sahib, Government House, Prince of Chiltistan, Delhi Gate, Chief Commissioner, Khan of Chiltistan, Abdulla Mahommed, Major Dewes, Colonel Joe, Sussex Downs New!
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