Publisher's Synopsis
In 1879 the North West Frontier, India's border with Afghanistan, provides an opportunity for action and advancement for officers in the British army, but the fierce Pathan warriors of the Afghan hills are a constant threat to the Queen's men. Captain Simon Fonthill, having cut his teeth in battle in the Zulu War, accepts the hazardous mission of riding into the hills and passing vital intelligence back to to camp. Accompanied by his servant, '352' Jenkins, and an eccentric but fearless Sikh translator known as W.G. Grace, Fonthill steels himself for what is surely the most dangerous posting of his career...
