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There were strange signs and portents in Bengal. The holy man sat under his tree and uttered a dark prophecy. Peasants ran through the forests at night, carrying pieces of bread between the villages. But Captain Rodney Savage--like most of the British officers in India--could not beleive that his loyal Sepoy troops would rebel.Then, on the night of May 10th, native soldiers rioted through the British compound, and Rodney Savage's wife was killed before his eyes. From that nightmare of fire and rape and killing, Captain Savage managed to escape, saving his son and the English girl, Caroline Langford.But for Rodney Savage, the ordeal had just begun...Based on the bloodiest chapter in British history, Nightrunners of Bengal is a story of magnificent adventure--the desperate odyssey of three Europeans in a land aflame with bloodlust and slaughter.
Magnificent novel of Empire and its aftermathFirst published in 1954 in the wake of the partition of India, John Masters' great novel Bhowani Junction has increased in stature over the years. Standing between E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and the widely acclaimed works of such writers as Paul Scott and Salman Rushdie, Bhowani Junction is both a richly intriguing novel and a superb evocation of the tensions and conflicts at the birth of modern India.
Far, Far the Mountain Peak is a portrayal of twenty years in the life of Peter Savage, British civil servant and mountaineer. A man of ruthless will and ambition from his Cambridge days to his time of near glory in India, Peter Savage is determined to reach the top and his motto is 'at all costs'. Talented, brilliant, lonely, he wins the love of a woman who both understands and fears him, and he enjoys the loyalty and friendship of an English peer and Indian patriot.But this life and career are cold-bloodedly plotted so that the people close to him are essential to his design for fame and greatness, and he is indifferent to his destructive effect on them as human beings.A tragic revelation of his own false values is the turning point of his own life, and how he finds his way to self-redemption is the magnificent climax of the novel.
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