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"King--of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure" by Talbot Mundy is a novel first published in 1916. British secret agent Captain Athelstan King navigates dangerous tribal territories on India's northwest frontier at the outbreak of World War I. Accompanied by the enigmatic Princess Yasmini and facing the Turkish mullah Muhammed Anim, King must confront a brewing conspiracy to incite jihad against the British Empire. Influenced by Mundy's own experiences in India and his theosophical interests, this adventure tale explores loyalty, mysticism, and intrigue along the Khyber Pass. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Suckled were we in a school unkind On suddenly snatched deduction And ever ahead of you (never behind!) Over the border our tracks you'll find, Wherever some idiot feels inclined To scatter the seeds of ruction.

For eyes we be, of Empire, we! Skinned and Puckered and quick to see And nobody guesses how wise we be. Unwilling to advertise we be. But, hot on the trail of ties, we be The pullers of roots of ruction!

--Song of the Indian Secret Service

The men who govern India--more power to them and her!--are few. Those who stand in their way and pretend to help them with a flood of words are a host. And from the host goes up an endless cry that India is the home of thugs, and of three hundred million hungry ones.

The men who know--and Athelstan King might claim to know a little--answer that she is the original home of chivalry and the modern mistress of as many decent, gallant, native gentlemen as ever graced a page of history.

The charge has seen the light in print that India--well-spring of plague and sudden death and money-lenders--has sold her soul to twenty succeeding conquerors in turn.

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