Blackstone and the Great Game
By Sally Spencer
A series of kidnappings seem like straightforward, run-of-the-mill crimes at first — but Inspector Sam Blackstone soon realises they’re anything but.
Behind them is a gang so ruthless it shocks even the hardened London criminal underworld; so efficient and meticulous in its planning that it evades all the traps the police set for it with almost contemptuous ease. And when the son of the visiting Maharajah of Chandrapore is taken in an ambush, it becomes plain to Blackstone that the previous kidnappings were just a preliminary skirmish — practice for a plot that impacts not only Britain, but it’s whole Empire.
Now Blackstone finds himself caught in a game of cat and mouse, frantically trying to pin down the loose threads to find the lost prince before it’s too late. But with the criminals always one step ahead of the Inspector, he begins to suspect that the threat is closer to home than he previously thought…