A tale of courage, danger and romance set in India and Afghanistan.
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MacAllan's ( Diamond Hard ) richly embroidered East-West epic, set in varying locales under Queen Victoria's rule, begins with a savagely detailed account of the massacre of 40,000 imperial troops in their retreat from Kabul. The only two survivors are Scottish physician Douglas Kintyre and the orphaned infant of a fellow soldier. Kintyre raises the boy, Benjamin Fanfare Bannerman, in Calcutta and Scotland until Ben runs away from their dour and oppressive housekeeper. While working in a traveling fair, he encounters another waif, Mary Jane Green, who has escaped debtors prison in London and then a whorehouse, before setting off to India for a better life. Is the possibility of such betterment an illusion? Not in this yarn, which, though somewhat pat, offers a shrewd analysis of class in both England and India. Ben buys himself a commission in the East India Company's Army and, after a series of hair-raising adventures, becomes rich by inventing a revolutionary automatic machine gun. He also rescues Mary Jane from certain death and proposes with military authority: "We've said goodbye three times," he tells her. "I'm never going to say goodbye again. And that is final."
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Fantasy Trash Novel,
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This review is from: Fanfare (Paperback)
This is a shallow book which meanders in no direction with no particular point, the ending is trite. A fine book for light read and buying second-hand, not worth buying new....
3.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting epic novel.,
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This review is from: Fanfare (Paperback)
It is a story, about an Englishman living in India when it was an English colony. He adopts an orphan baby, and the novel is about all this. How the boy grows up, etc. etc. You can say it is an adventures book. Nice to read, but nothing extraordinary.
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