Book description
India 1819
Matthew Hervey is charged with raising a new troop, and organising
transport for India - for he, his men and their horses are to set sail
with immediate effect.
What Hervey and his greenhorn soldiers cannot know is that in India
they will face a trial for which they are ill prepared. A large number
of Burmese war-boats are assembled near Chittagong, and the only way
to thwart their advance involves a hazardous march through the jungle.
Soon Hervey and his troop are in the midst of hot and bloody action
once again...
'The book picks up a pace that mirrors a cavalry charge ...Hervey
continues to grow in stature, while Mallinson himself continues to
delight.' Observer
Allan Mallinson
was a serving cavalry officer. He is also the author of
Light Dragoons
, a history of four regiments of British Cavalry, one of which he
commanded, and a regular reviewer for
The Times,
the
Spectator
and the
Literary Review
. His Matthew Hervey novels are
Sunday Times
bestsellers and are all available in Bantam paperback.
