The Game

Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:It�??s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year�??s visit from Holmes�??s brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O�??Hara�??the same Kimball known to the world through Kipling�??s famed Kim. Inexplicably, O�??Hara withdrew from the �??Great Game�?� of espionage and now he has just as inexplicably disappeared.  When Russell discovers Holmes�??s own secret friendship with the spy, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But Russell soon learns that in this faraway and exotic land, it�??s often impossible to tell friend from foe�??and that some games aren�??t played for fun but for the highest stakes of all�?�life and death. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Laurie… (more)