Lotus and the Wind

In 1879 Lieutenant Robin Savage is serving in the second Anglo-Afghan war as Britain and the Russian Empire engage in the Great Game that will decide AfghanistanOCOs future. Unjustly accused of cowardice Lieutenant Savage joins the Secret Service to prove his loyalty and he must unravel the mystery of ?AtlarOCO, the word written by an Afghan stranger in his own blood, to thwart the ambitions of Tsarist Russia. Only SavageOCOs love of the empty spaces of AfghanistanOCOs plains and his own courage will protect him as he sets out with a faithful Gurkha orderly to the furthest frontier of the British Empire. John Masters captures the beauty, the strangeness and the splendour of the British Raj and evokes the tensions and conflicts of nineteenth-century Afghanistan with an authority unlike that of any other writer."

In 1879, locotenentul Robin Savage slujeste in al doilea razboi anglo-afgan, in timp ce Marea Britanie si Imperiul Rus se angajeaza in Marele Joc care va decide viitorul Afganistanului. Acuzat pe nedrept de lasitate, locotenentul Savage se alatura Serviciului Secret pentru a-si dovedi loialitatea si trebuie sa dezvaluie misterul? AtlarOCO, cuvantul scris de un strain afgan in propriul sau sange, pentru a zadarnici ambitiile Rusiei tariste.