British agent Athelstan King and American Greg Ramsden match wits with a Hindu mahatma and Yasmini, a mysterious princess, as King and Ramsden try to block a plot to free India from British rule. Their pursuit of the conspiracy takes them into underground caves populated by underfed crocodiles and panthers, as well as Hindu holy men conducting...More
Talbot Mundy was born as William Lancaster Gribbon; he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. He was a British pulp writer of oriental adventures. Best known as the author of King—of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series. His work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. —(from Wikipedia)
Talbot Mundy was born as William Lancaster Gribbon; he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. He was a British pulp writer of oriental adventures. Best known as the author of King—of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series. His work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. —(from Wikipedia)
Book Summary
British agent Athelstan King and American Greg Ramsden match wits with a Hindu mahatma and Yasmini, a mysterious princess, as King and Ramsden try to block a plot to free India from British rule. Their pursuit of the conspiracy takes them into underground caves populated by underfed crocodiles and panthers, as well as Hindu holy men conducting incredible experiments in telepathy, clairvoyance, and much more! A thrilling novel.
Talbot Mundy
