The future is looking rosy for Dee and Ben Carmichael on their return to Bombay from England. At last Ben's career is flourishing and Dee is flexing her journalistic muscles in a new job as Bombay correspondent for the Daily Herald. But when Dee interviews a man arrested for attempting to smuggle gold through Santa Cruz she begins to sense that the world she thinks she knows so well is not as it seems. Dee is haunted by the sleight of hand of the "magic men" of Mahableshwar and surprised by a coincidental meeting with an old acquaintance, PT. Even more confusing are the unconventional activities of PT and his sinister Burmese colleague at their press agency. Could Monique, Dee's eccentric new friend, lead the journalist to an ultimate explanation? And can the regular flights northwards to the mountains made by Monique's lover, Peter, prove key to solving the mystery? The tricks performed by the "magic men" fuel Dee's interest in the inexplicable and prompt her to look beneath the veneer of success and respectability surrounding her ex-pat friends.
- ISBN10 0727857193
- ISBN13 9780727857194
- Publish Date 27 April 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 April 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Edition World ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English