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During a visit to an old army friend, James Lindsay, commander of the British army's fort at Gor Khatri on the Afghan border, Joe Sandilands becomes caught up in a murder plot with reverberations in the past, when a Pathan prince is killed, hostages are seized, and Joe and his companion are given one week to identify and arrest the killer before the frontier is engulfed in violence. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.