The Maharajahs General, Paul Fraser Collard
The Maharajahs General, Paul Fraser Collard
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The Maharajah's General
East India Company in India, 1855

Author: Paul Fraser Collard

Series: Jack Lark

Narrator: Dudley Hinton

Unabridged: 12 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Headline

Published: 11/21/2013

Synopsis

In The Maharajah's General by Paul Fraser Collard Jack Lark returns to the battlefield under a new name to face greater adventures in a brutal land. A must-read for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Simon Scarrow. 'Collard ... evokes the horror of that era with great brio. Enthralling' The Times

Jack Lark barely survived the Battle of the Alma. As the brutal fight raged, he discovered the true duty that came with the officer's commission he'd taken. In hospital, wounded, and with his stolen life left lying on the battlefield, he grasps a chance to prove himself a leader once more. Poor Captain Danbury is dead, but Jack will travel to his new regiment in India, under his name.

Jack soon finds more enemies, but this time they're on his own side. Exposed as a fraud, he's rescued by the chaplain's beautiful daughter, who has her own reasons to escape. They seek desperate refuge with the Maharajah of Sawadh, the charismatic leader whom the British Army must subdue. He sees Jack as a curiosity, but recognises a fellow military mind. In return for his safety, Jack must train the very army the British may soon have to fight...

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About Paul Fraser Collard

Paul's love of military history started at an early age. A childhood spent watching films like Waterloo and Zulu whilst reading Sharpe, Flashman and the occasional Commando comic, gave him a desire to know more of the men who fought in the great wars of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. At school, Paul was determined to become an officer in the British army and he succeeded in winning an Army Scholarship. However, Paul chose to give up his boyhood ambition and instead went into the finance industry. Paul stills works in the City, and lives with his wife and three children in Kent.

Reviews

Goodreads review by S.J.A. on August 09, 2016

Anyone who’s been keeping up with my sporadic reviews will remember how highly I rated Paul Fraser Collard’s debut novel: The Scarlet Thief. Indeed, a week ago it made it into my top ten reads of 2013. Well those of you who were tempted by my review into buying it will be pleased to hear that I’ve fi......more

Goodreads review by Speesh on July 03, 2016

Paul has come up with a sneakily clever idea of re-generating his ‘Jack Lark’ - well, in the books I’ve read so far - with each tale. Enabling him to be not so much born again, but at least assume a new persona and begin anew at the start of each book. Still with the baggage - not to say problems -......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on January 07, 2017

Paul Fraser Collard's brilliant lovable rogue, Jack Lark, returns in this sequel to The Scarlet Thief. This time Lark finds himself in India, just before the terrible events of the Mutiny. Collard paints a colourful picture of the life of the British military in the middle of the nineteenth century.......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on June 14, 2019

In The Scarlet Thief, an ambitious but impoverished redcoat saw a way for himself out of the gutter when the officer he served as an orderly became deathly ill on a sea voyage to Crimea. Assuming the officer’s name and position, Lark launched himself from the ranks – and found that becoming a leader......more

Goodreads review by Marat on March 26, 2017

Another good installment in the series. Nice story, good action, not a single dull moment. Moving straight into the 3rd book.......more

Quotes

Page-turning adventure, a hero with issues yet who's likable, and antagonists you will love to hate... It was hard to put down and a real pleasure to read. If you enjoy books by Bernard Cornwell, you'll want to put this book on your reading list Historical Novel Society

The story is tightly planned and written, the characters three-dimensional and appropriately sympathetic or hateful, and the language and turn of phrase thoroughly engrossing... Quite simply do yourself a favour and read these books S.J.A. Turney

The story is well written with some very comprehensive descriptions of both people and their surroundings. In each of the actions the pace is dynamic and brutally described making it one of those books where there is always the tendency to just read one more chapter before putting it down for a while. Well worth reading ARRSE

It's not since I first picked up Sharpe's Eagle that a single character captured my imagination so totally, this supported by a fast fluid pace of writing, and a vivid portrayal of the Indian country, people, time period, the east India company and as usual the brutal, uncompromising and occasionally morally bankrupt officer corps coupled with the efficiency of the ordinary men of the British army, all this condensed into 336 pages of explosive action, violent emotions, uncompromising unbending discipline and a man with the courage to do what is right Parmenion Books

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