The Strangler Vine, M.J. Carter
The Strangler Vine, M.J. Carter
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The Strangler Vine

Author: M.J. Carter

Narrator: Alex Wyndham

Unabridged: 10 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/31/2015


Synopsis

Set in the untamed wilds of the nineteenth-century colonial India, a dazzling historical thriller introducing an unforgettable investigative pair.

India, 1837: William Avery is a young solider with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a genius at languages and disguises, disenchanted with the whole ethos of British rule, but who cannot resist the challenge of an unresolved mystery. What starts as a wild goose chase for this unlikely pair—trying to track down a missing writer who lifts the lid on Calcutta society—becomes very much more sinister as Blake and Avery get sucked into the mysterious Thuggee cult its even more ominous suppression.

About M.J. Carter

M.J. Carter is a biographer, historian, and thriller writer who was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and Exeter College, Oxford. She worked as a publisher and journalist before beginning research on her biography of Anthony Blunt in 1994. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. Anthony Blunt: His lives (2001), her first book, won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Orwell Prize, and was shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread Biography Award. In the US it was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the seven best books of 2002.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bonnie on June 12, 2017

The story started off kind of slowly and, to be honest, if it wasn't for the fact that it was set in India in the early 1800s, I might have put it down. But I have an unquenchable fascination with India and Carter's depiction of life during that period was engrossing. What also kept me "reading" was......more

Goodreads review by Maureen on February 18, 2014

I deliberated for quite a long while over this review and rating. Carter has done a lot of research and I like what she aimed to do with this novel. I just don't like her execution. A well researched and interesting historical relook in on The East India Trade Company is marred by an oddly distancin......more

Goodreads review by David on November 18, 2016

You can't get away with being Rudyard Kipling anymore. Novels set in 19th century India can present British characters as protagonists, but if they're uncritically accepting of British rule and treating the Indians as heathen savages, there are probably going to be some words for the author about "c......more