Eighteen-year-old Janisha Chatterjee, the Cambridge-educated daughter of an Indian government minister, is coming home to visit her father on his death-bed, when her airship is attacked and wrecked. Amid the debris, a stranger--monstrous but kind--saves her life and entrusts her with a mysterious device, which pitches her head-first into the "Greater Game," the ongoing stand-off between British, Chinese and Russian powers in the Indian subcontinent...