Honorable Company: A Novel of India Before the Raj - Tapa dura

A representative of the East India Company, Captain Matthew Hervey discovers peril and adventure during his mission to Chintalpore, an embattled Indian city. By the author of A Close Run Thing. 20,000 first printing.

linson's critically acclaimed A Close Run Thing, young Matthew Hervey displayed valor and acumen at the Battle of Waterloo with his beloved 6th Light Dragoons. Now, in this rousing new military novel, Hervey is promoted to captain, and the late summer of 1815 finds him on an adventure to a far-flung corner of the burgeoning British Empire. In India Hervey encounters a fascinating land of dust and heat, spice-laden breezes and primal jungle--and a challenge of a more tortuous kind.

Honorable Company

As the victorious English cavalry see Napoleon exiled, and hail a long-awaited "peace on earth," Captain Matthew Hervey finds himself posted to a place of ingrained strife. The Duke of Wellington's new aide-de-camp, Matthew must postpone his marriage to the beautiful Lady Henrietta Lindsay and make the long and hazardous sea voyage to India for what Wellington has called "deuced tricky work." Matthew's covert mission will embroil him in the jostling of nat