This book is for all those who love "Kim," that masterpiece of Indian life in
which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this
strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service,
Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim's footsteps across Kipling's India to see how
much of it remains. To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be
pointless. But Kim is different. For much of this Great Game classic was
inspired by actual people and places, thus blurring the line between the real
and the imaginary. Less a travel book than a literary detective story, this is
the intriguing story