Shadows of Men

This is the fifth book in the highly successful historical crime series featuring Captain Sam Wyndham and his subaltern, Sergeant Surendranath Bannerjee of the Indian Police. Set in the last days of the Raj, the novel leads the two cops into a mad spiral of civil unrest, vanishing suspects and witnesses, and ranges across ths subcontinent from Calcutta to the lush Taj Hotel in Bombay.