The Fever Tree
by Richard Mason
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From the bestselling author of The World of Susie Wong, a breathtakingly cinematic story full of tragedy and romance, set in 1940s India. Englishman Richard Birkett lives for danger and adventure, so when he is given a perilous mission to India he jumps at the chance. Tasked with convincing a young communist to assassinate the King of Nepal, he ventures into the exotic unknown – concerned only with fulfilling his assignment and finding adventure along the way. But when he meets Lakshmi, show more a beautiful Indian girl trapped in an unhappy marriage, everything changes and there is suddenly far more at stake . . . A tragic story of intrigue, espionage and heady, intoxicating love, The Fever Tree is a vividly painted portrait of a lost time. Richard Mason was born near Manchester in 1919. He served in the RAF during the Second World War before taking a crash course in Japanese and becoming an interrogator of prisoners of war. His first novel, The Wind Cannot Read, which drew on these experie... show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The Fever Tree
- Original title
- The Fever Tree
- Original publication date
- 1962
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Romance, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 820 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
- LCC
- PZ3 .M3858 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- 33
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- Languages
- English, German, Italian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 7
