The Queen's Tiger: Volume 2 - Paperback

by Peter Watt (Author)

From Persia to India, the second installment of a brand new series set in the 1840s

It is 1857. Colonial India is a simmering volcano of nationalism about to erupt. Army surgeon Peter Campbell and his wife Alice, in India on their honeymoon, have no idea that they are about to be swept up in the chaos. Ian Steele, known to all as Captain Samuel Forbes, is fighting for Queen and country in Persia. A world away, the real Samuel Forbes is planning to return to London - with potentially disastrous consequences for Samuel and Ian both. When Ian and Alice's worlds collide in India, together they will face the enemy and the terrible deprivations and savagery of war.

Author Biography

Peter Watt has been a soldier, articled clerk to a solicitor, prawn trawler deckhand, builder's laborer, pipe layer, real estate salesman, private investigator, police sergeant and adviser to the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. He has lived and worked with Aborigines, Islanders, Vietnamese and Papua New Guineans and speaks, reads and writes Vietnamese and Pidgin. He now lives at Maclean, on the Clarence River in northern New South Wales. He is a volunteer firefighter with the Rural Fire service, and is interested in fishing and the vast open spaces of outback Queensland.