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Finalist for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger AwardLonglisted for the Baileys Women?s Prize for Fiction 2014India, 1937: William Avery is a young soldier rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a genius at languages and disguises who cannot resist an unresolved mystery. What starts as a wild goose chase for this unlikely pair ? trying to track down a missing writer ? becomes much more sinister as Blake and Avery get sucked into the mysterious Thuggee cult and its even more ominous suppression.