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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780553583380
ISBN number: 0553583387
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 480
Printing Date: March 01, 2005
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: March 01, 2005
Sale Popularity Level: 28807
Studio: Bantam
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Laurie R. King’s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save the life of one of literature’s most fabled heroes.
It’s the second day of the new year, 1924, and Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes. But the fragile peace will be fleeting—for a visit with Holmes’s gravely ill brother, Mycroft, brings news of an intrigue that is sure to halt their respite. Mycroft, who has ties to the highest levels of the government, has just received a strange package. The oilskin-wrapped packet contains the papers of a missing English spy named Kimball O’Hara—indeed, the same Kimball who served as the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s famed Kim.
An orphaned English boy turned loose in India, Kim long used his cunning to spy for the Crown. But after inexplicably withdrawing from the “Great Game” of border espionage, he’s gone missing and is feared taken hostage—or even killed.
When Russell learns of Holmes’s own secret friendship with Kim some thirty years before, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But even before they arrive, danger will show its face in everything from a suspicious passenger on board their steamer to an “accident” that very nearly claims their lives. Once in India, Russell and Holmes must travel incognito—no small task for the English lady and her lanky companion. But after a twist of fate forces the couple to part ways, Russell learns that in this faraway place it’s often impossible to tell friend from foe—and that some games must be played out until their deadly end.
Showcasing King’s masterful plotting and skill at making history leap from the page, The Game brings alive an India fraught with unrest and poised for change—and an unpredictable mystery with brilliance and character to match.
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This book is another great Mary Russell novel. The author masters the art of description. It kept my attention every minute. I loved this book!
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This book is wonderfully descriptive but generally lacking in plot. Mary Russell is extremely competent, resourceful, and generally well dressed - at no point in the book are we in doubt about her wardrobe - and whether she purchased it, borrowed it, improvised it, or is in disguise. We are similarly illuminated about her surroundings - she would narrate a wonderful travelogue. Sherlock Holmes is mentioned from time to time, but the main character is mostly an English version of Rudyard Kipling's Kim, not Conan Doyle's Holmes. So it might be fairer to say that Ms. King has written a Kipling type novel than to associate it with Conan Doyle.
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First of all, I'm a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. I also love stories where the woman (since I am one too) have brains as well. I have not read any of Ms. King's other SH novels. To get to the point, I felt no warmth between the two marrieds. They each call the other by their last names - no pet names, no dears, no honey. My husband and I have been married 20 years, yet we still show and speak affection (not like newlyweds, but at least like warm-blooded creatures). I was disappointed by their coldness towards life and each other. I'm going to read "Bee Keeper's Apprentice" to see where the love is.
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Laurie Kiing has done it again! Great series of novels! I recommend them all! THE VERY BEST!
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It's easy to enjoy The Game--after a few pages, the clever writing, the research, the exotic settings, heroine Mary Russell herself (she really can do anything), and--oh,yes--her husband (!) Sherlock Holmes take over and speed you along in their wake. This entertaining tale has Holmes and Russell in search of the (in our world fictional, but in theirs, real character from Rudyard Kipling's book) Kim, a player in the spy game involving England, Russia, and India in the early twentieth century. Danger and intrigue abound--is anyone who they seem?
A few quibbles: too many loose ends (some of them get tied up in the subsequent entry in the series, Locked Rooms--but that's cheating); and references to events in other novels in this series occasionally seem inadequately explained. Holmes purists may find these novels uncomfortable, but those who find the age difference between Sherlock and his spouse hard to swallow may be interested to know that it equals the age difference between author King and her own husband. (A final note: No novel can be all bad in which there is a character named Sunny Goodheart.)
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