Sergeant Akal Singh is not in the good books of his colonial bosses. Facts misrepresented means that the so called disgrace follows him wherever he goes. The year 1915 in Fiji was for me a good background for the story with overt racism, colonial bullying and simmering discontent.
Charged with accompanying two English ladies to an island, Sergeant Akal, also has to keep an eye out for a group of German soldiers, find them, capture them and bring them back. The story involves two murders with a history of past misdeeds going back decades to India and a rebellion there, the English ladies with a secret of their own and the capture of a group of Norwegian soldiers aka Germans which was the coup d’etat for Akal.
History not so nice for the native population, very descriptive of life in this unusual setting with British overlords ruling the roost on a diminishing Empire.
Sent by Soho Press for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.
I don't think I've ever read a historical novel set in Fiji. Sounds interesting.
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