The Viceroy's Captain by Anthony Conway- India NW Frontier Novel - HB - 2000-1st

The Viceroy's Captain (ISBN: 0340768568 / 0-340-76856-8) \nConway, Anthony. \n\nBook Description: Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2000, First UK Printing, first impression with number string down to 1. Pp. (8),1-340,(4). 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. \""India's North West Frontier in 1925 is a hotbed of discontent. Behind an uneasy peace lies an explosive combination: the age-old ambitions of the princes who still rule vast kingdoms, Mahatma Gandhi's fast-spreading nationalist movement and the devious plots of the Raj's immemorial enemies, the Russians. The Eye of the Storm is a legendary diamond, said to bring its owner control of India. Now, bandits have stolen it on its way across the border from the ruins of the Czar's empire, with a party of Bolshevik fanatics in hot pursuit. But the Viceroy's greatest fear is that it willfall into the hands of Prince Mahsud of Beshandu. The Oxford-educated Pathan prince believes that with the diamond in his hands he can lead a r