About the Book: Great Game East: India, China and the Struggle for Asias Most
Volatile Frontier
There was the Great Game, the complex political machinations of Victorian
Britain and Tsarist Russia in the nineteenth century; and there was the New
Great Game, the conflict between the Western powers and Russia and China over
Central Asias oil and natural resources. But there is another Great Game thats
playing out in Asia-one that will significantly impact the course of global
politics.
In Great Game East, Bertil Lintner, acknowledged as one of the foremost experts
on insurgencies in the region, unpacks the layers of complex political intrigues
and spy networks that define