About the Book: White Elephant
Aiden Byrne, an Irish police officer posted to Madraspatnam and a loyal servant
to the Crown and Queen Victoria, knows that there is nothing he need fear in
this heat-blasted land. The year is 1878 and the south of India is in the grip
of a devastating famine. .
But when Aiden encounters two labourers from the Tudor Ice Company being
brutally whipped in the countryside, he is dragged into a world whose surface he
has only skimmed and whose cruelty and darkness will change him forever. At
Tudor, mammoth blocks of ice, harvested from frozen New England lakes and
transported