Binding : Hardcover
Pages : 431
Publisher : Hachette India
Edition : 2018
Language : English
ISBN 13: 9789351952985

Synopsis :
The story is as much about the two men as it is about the insidious way that the East India Company worked to eventually establish British rule in India. The friendship of two men, the fictional Nicholas Ballantyne and the actual historical figure of Robert Clive, forms the basis of the story of Fortune’s Soldier, Alex Rutherford’s new book. The author presents history in a racy, fast-paced but decidedly ‘lite’ way in this follow-up to his bestselling Empire of the Moghul series.

Ballantyne and Clive, both employed as writers for the East India Company, meet on a ship The Winchester, which is en route to Hindustan from England. The tentative friendship that they forge aboard that vessel deepens as they become embroiled in the...