The Peshawar Lancers

ISBN: 0451458737

Author: Stirling, S. M.

Condition: New

In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the worlds climate forever. And just as Earths temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back togetherIn the twenty-first century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls much of the world. The other major world leader is the Czar of All the Russias. Everyone predicts an eventual, deadly showdown. But no one can predict the role that one man, Captain Athelstane King, reluctant spy and hero, will play