A Division Of The Spoils Part 1 Of 2

In this concluding volume of The Raj Quartet, the end of the British rule is at hand. Hitler is dead and there is peace in Europe.

It is through the eyes of Guy Perron, sergeant in an army intelligence unit, that we view this historic time. Perron's life is bound up with Ronald Merrick, an older man, wounded, enigmatic, a colonel of the police, a person apart. How they work out their conflicts is at one level symbolic of the relationship between English and Indian.

"Magnificent! Scott throws us into India, wretched and beautiful...his contribution to literature is permanent." (The New York Times)