Author Fazle Chowdhury's epic novel, set in London during the beginning of World War I explores the world of an Oxford-educated foreigner of Indian descent. With his life in tatters even before the beginning of the Great War pandemonium, Firoze Hazari struggles between the life he wants but cannot have ― a story of expectations filled with failures that results in this historical thriller that follows early 20th century events with an immediacy that turns historical settings into lively scenes ―unrolling with a feeling of directness; coming as it does from the character's foreign perspective. With rich attention, given to the complex political situation, love, betrayal, then war and after to rebuild a life fused with haunting elements―ridden in complicated and undiscoverable secrets.