Synopsis
Major Max Devlin is on a joint SIS/CIA assignment to train an elite unit of India's All-Tibetan Special Frontier Force - the 22s - for covert ops inside Tibet. A welcome escape to Chakrata, North India turns explosive when his US counterpart earns himself a shamanic curse.
Their host, an Indian cabinet peopled by self-serving ministers, is split on where national interests lie. A deviously ambitious intelligence officer waits in the wings. Local politicians whose salacious sons perish at the hands of Devlin and his Gurkha sergeant, Deepraj are in vengeful pursuit.
Once across the border and high on the Himalayas, death and torture await the 22s. Caught in the geopolitical web are three remarkable women - two officers and a combat surgeon - whose courage, faith and skill will be tested to the limits.
Faced with a clash between his principles as a soldier and his cherished career in the Royal Gurkha Rifles, Devlin must decide how the die is cast.
A prequel to The Dharma Expedient and Devlin's Chakra, The Chakrata Incident takes readers back to the past when, at the height of his military career, Devlin is unwittingly parachuted into the beginning of the end.
About the Author
Born and raised English, it was only a few years ago that I discovered my Irish lineage through my grandfather William Fry having been born in Dublin.
Sharp-eyed readers will notice that his is not my surname, which in fact comes from his wife, my grandmother Mary, daughter of Napoleon Sarony, the foremost portrait photographer in the United States between 1865 and the turn of the century.
Napoleon is, by virtue of a landmark ruling of the US Supreme Court in 1884, the "inventor" of Oscar Wilde, whose most enduring images were posed and taken by my great-grandfather at his 37 Union Square, New York studio.
Although I am yet to set foot in Massachusetts, I have written a historical trilogy around a fictional character born in Boston. Sean Brooke is the son of an Anglo-Irish general who has settled in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the early 19th century.
The first instalment, which takes place between 1820 and 1838, is woven into President Andrew Jackson's campaign to drive the people of the first Nation out of America. Sean lost his mother in childbirth and grew up cherished by an Iroquois woman.
The odyssey follows Sean from Boston to India where he accepts a commission in the East India Company's army; is then posted as a spy to the Kingdom of Nepal; and moves onto the Punjab where he plays a role in the First Sikh War, 1845-1846.
A visionary publisher is all I and the trilogy await.
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