Ballantyne Chronicles #01: Fortune's Soldier

Ballantyne Chronicles #01: Fortune's Soldier
Alex Rutherford
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 400pg
25 Feb 2021 UK
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9781800322837
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Power, ambition, corruption - the British East India Company risesAn old empire at war with itself1744, Scotland. Young Nicholas Ballantyne' s life is turned upside down when his uncle, caught up in events far beyond his control, announces that, for his own safety, Nicholas is to set sail for India immediately to join the East India Company. A new power risingAfter decades of struggle, the Company is ready to expand. Nicholas and his new friend and colleague, the mercurial Robert Clive, rise quickly within the Company' s ranks, masterminding plans to counter French designs in India. A battle for survivalBut the fight for India will only be resolved in battle. On the fields of Plassey, the two armies draw up for the climactic encounter. For Robert and Nicholas, commanding the Company' s forces, this will be their making, or their end. . . Brilliantly crafted, and bringing to life the momentous events that shook India in the mid-eighteenth century, Fortune' s Soldier is an epic tale of a fascinating era by a master storyteller.

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Alex Rutherford lives in London and has travelled extensively in India. Alex is also the author of the Empire of the Moghul sextet of historical novels currently being filmed by Disney Plus/(Hot Star) in India for a six-series, high-budget TV production. The showrunner is Nikhil Advani. The Empire of the Moghul books are also under motion picture development in Hollywood.

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