King Jackal Six

Central India, 1829. On the Great Deccan Road, travellers are vanishing. Merchants, pilgrims, sepoys going home on leave, widows and small boys. They fall in with friendly strangers on the road, share their fire and their food, and are never seen again. Mehtab Singh is nineteen, carrying six hundred rupees of his family's money south to Jubbulpore. He is one of them. A year later his elder brother comes looking. Jaswant Singh is a veteran of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's wars, a Sikh swordsman wi...