The Game: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

ISBN: 0553386379

Author: King, Laurie R.

Condition: New

Its only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Years visit from Holmess brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball OHara-the same Kimball known to the world through Kiplings famed Kim. Inexplicably, OHara withdrew from the Great Game of espionage and now he has just as inexplicably disappeared.When Russell discovers Holmess own secret friendship with the spy, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But Russell soon learns that in this faraway and exotic land, its often impossible to tell friend from foe-and that some games arent played for fun but for the highest stakes of alllife and death.BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Laurie R. King's Garment of Shadows.