King of the Khyber Rifles

King of the Khyber Rifles


Talbot  Mundy Talbot Mundy

Summary

It is a tale of colonial adventure on the Northwest Frontier on India. Captain Athelstan King is a secret agent for the British Raj at the beginning of the First World War. He is given a difficult task of preventing a rising of the tribes.
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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)

Publish Date : 22 Dec 2022

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Chapter : 18


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