ASIN: B07WFDBC3L
Publisher: Amazon
Pages: 301
The year is 1896 in a world where Colonialism is failing, exhausted by the Great War that burns across Europe. Edward Smith, reluctant soldier of fortune and inveterate follower of lost causes, finds himself washed up in the remote British outpost of Singapore. Recovering from the latest of a string of heroic failures, all he wants is to be left alone while he drinks tea and wallows in self-pity, but that’s clearly too much to hope for. The Colonial authorities have a problem. A useless, mad professor with entirely too much influence with the government back in London has turned up and is causing a nuisance. He must be dealt with, one way or another, and they think Smith is just the man for the job. A little blackmail persuades Smith into agreeing to guide the professor on an expedition, hunting minerals in the remote jungles of the Malay Peninsula. The minerals probably don’t exist ...
