It’s only the second time of 1924, but Mary Russell and her spouse, Sherlock Holmes, end up embroiled in intrigue. It begins with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s sibling Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of the English spy called Kimball O’Hara-the same Kimball known to the globe through Kipling’s famous Kim. Inexplicably, O’Hara withdrew from the ‘Great Video game’ of espionage and today he has simply as inexplicably disappeared. When Russell discovers Holmes’s very own secret friendship with the spy, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her spouse to India to search for the lacking operative. But Russell shortly learns that in this faraway and amazing land, it’s often impossible to inform friend from foe-and that some games aren’t performed for fun but also for the highest stakes of all.life and loss of life.