Pursued by assassins through the streets of Calcutta, Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of the Jheeter's Gate. Sheltering two newborn babies inside his overcoat he runs at full tilt to the house of Aryami Bose, to whom he entrusts the children. Brought up apart, the twins are finally reunited at 16 to hear the tragic tale of the parents they never knew. But as the novel unfolds, there is more to this story than meets the eye and they are lured by a … mehrshadowy figure from the past into a final showdown in the ruins. weniger