In one scene, Harry manages to blow Voltaire's bust out of the bore of the six-pounder, though the main character expresses surprise that it would become jammed at all. The mere sound of the word "cholera" in this book, seemed to anger Dunstaple, as he remembered a dramatic argument he had with McNab about the causes of the disease. Later after a freak snowstorm, those inside the Residency create canister shot by stuffing ladies stockings with filed candlesticks. Mr. Hopkins, known as the Collector, while opening a dispatch box does not find the documents he expected but four biscuit-sized objects made of coarse flour
In one scene, Harry manages to blow Voltaire's bust out of the bore of the six-pounder, though the main character expresses surprise that it would become jammed at all. The mere sound of the word "cholera" in this book, seemed to anger Dunstaple, as he remembered a dramatic argument he had with McNab about the causes of the disease. Later after a freak snowstorm, those inside the Residency create canister shot by stuffing ladies stockings with filed candlesticks. Mr. Hopkins, known as the Collector, while opening a dispatch box does not find the documents he expected but four biscuit-sized objects made of coarse flour called chapatis, whose mysterious distribution represented the first sign of trouble here. The title location is not a town at all, "but one of those ancient cemeteries that are called ‘Cities of the Silent'," that one comes across in northern India. The second volume in the author's Empire Trilogy, for 10 points, name this Booker Prize winning novel by J. G. Farrell about the blockade of a city during the Sepoy Rebellion.
In one scene, Harry manages to blow Voltaire's bust out of the bore of the six-pounder, though the main character expresses surprise that it would become jammed at all.
The {Siege} of {Krishnapur}