The Sabre's Edge

US: Bantam Press, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. The most exciting adventure yet for Matthew Hervey and the Sixth Light Drag oons. 1824. The Sixth Light Dragoons are still stationed in India and the t alk in the officer?fs mess is of war. The Burmese are encroaching on Compan y land and skirmishes are common on India?fs borders. Meanwhile, across the country in Bhurtpoor the succession to the Raj has been usurped. The right ful claimant Balwant Sing has been forced from the throne by the war-monger ing Durjan Sal. The conflict looks set to flair up into bloody conflict, ta king the surrounding provinces with it. With the threat of war on two front s the British troops must intercede. The trial ahead will test Hervey and h is newly blooded troop to their very limits, for Durjan Sal has taken refug e in the infamous Bhurtpoor -- a fortress surrounded by a deep moat almost five miles in perimeter, with thirty-five turreted bastions and the Tower o f Victory built with the skulls of Lord Lakes?f defeated men. Hervey can be sure of one thing: the siege of Bhurtpoor will be hot and bloody work. Onc e again, the fortunes of Matthew Hervey and his courageous troop will be de cided by the sabre?fs edge. From the Paperback edition.