The Caravan of the Dead

“Lamb tells his [stories] in such vivid fashion that the reader fairly lives through the wild adventures.”—The Boston Globe Edith’s imagination had been fired by his description. Almost, she had forgotten the man himself. “What is beyond Kashmir—above it?” she asked curiously. Monsey checked himself and looked down. “The roof of the world. So the natives call it.” John Donovan vanishes near Lake Issyk Kul after joining the dreaded Caravan of the Dead, leaving behind only rumors of violence and a past no one can unravel. When his servant defies orders and follows his trail into the high reaches of Kashmir, he is murdered by a stranger who claims it is the price of betrayal. Half a world away, Edith Rand survives a near-fatal accident thanks to the unsettling intervention of Edouard Monsey—a man she instinctively distrusts. Drawn by fate and prophecy to India, Edith journeys into the mist-shrouded hills of Kashmir, where old names resurface, strangers reappear, and a blood-red fog conceals truths better left buried. In Srinagar, past and present collide, and the dead may not be done with the living. Set against the Roof of the World and the high reaches of Kashmir, The Caravan of the Dead fuses mysticism and intrigue with exotic characters and far-flung locales into spellbinding adventure. This is Harold Lamb at his most exotic.