As the ship docked in Bombay, the shocking news of the rising by the Indian mutineers and their massacire of women, children and civilians reached Anthony Morgan and his company. Even so, they were hardly prepared for what they now faced. Morgan himself has another quest. On discovering that the son he had fathered, his child's mother and her husband, Morgan's old sergeant, are captives up in the hills, he is determined to rescue them. A gripping tale of a soldier torn between orders and honour.