Stealth

Shockwaves race through the English households in Peshawar when the wife of a young civil servant is engulfed by a scandal that shakes the Victorian values which distinguish so much of the British Raj. Of course the best way to deal with this sort of thing is to hastily recover and turn one’s attention to other urgent matters. Captain Walter Denton’s Brigadier does exactly that. But Walter is an experienced India hand. His boots have been on the ground for decades and he starts to see another, chilling possibility at the bottom of that unfortunate incident. In this distant part of the empire, Captain Denton finds himself almost alone in thinking there might be a connection between the young wife’s shame and one of the most senior officials in the whole of this North West Frontier Province of India. And if he is right, that official is in grave danger. But from whom? And how? Bringing all his experience to bear, and following his instincts that have been finely honed during his time in this far flung outpost, Walter finds himself in exactly the right spot as the enemies of the Raj close in for a brutal end game. Like the polo his corps play, or the rough buzkashi from across the Afghan border, the final outcome is secured only in the dying seconds of this game.