Smoke and Ashes - Sam Wyndham, Bk 3 Author:Abir Mukherjee For Captain Sam Wyndham, the opium that provides escape from his painful memories of the Great War has now trapped him in a new nightmare. The corpse he recently stumbled across at a drug den bears the same horrifying injuries as those that killed a respected nurse. Reporting the connection could cost Wyndham his Calcutta police career -- even a... more »s he and Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee are assigned to prevent nationalist protestors from disrupting the royal visit of Edward, the Prince of Wales.
But when another victim is found, Wyndham and Banerjee uncover clues that put them up against British military intelligence -- and reveal evidence of a secret weapons experiment. Now to stop a relentless killer they must venture into a no-man's-land of insidious agendas and lethal manipulations, where truth comes at a brutal cost...« less