British spy falls for the woman she's to betray.
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Calcutta, 1912. Captain Victoria Sterling has one assignment: identify troublemakers and report back to London. But the Empire's briefing didn't prepare her for Lady Kamala Devi, the colonel's wife, a brilliant hostess, and the centre of a secret network working against British rule.
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The Calcutta Club stank of gin and old men's sweat. Half of them had damp patches spreading under their arms, the other half were too pissed to notice they were talking complete bollocks about cricket whilst the natives plotted to burn down Government House.
I'd been in Bengal six months. Long enough to know the briefings were shite. 'Identify the troublemakers,' they'd said. 'Pose as sympathetic intellectual.' Right. Because revoluti
