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Books of The Week: Saturday, 19th of July 2025

The Greatest Game: Being the Further Adventures of Kimball O’Hara by Stephen Alter 

ABOUT THE BOOK
March 1947. India is poised on the verge of Independence and Partition. Lahore and Delhi are roiling under Jinnah’s call for direct action the previous year. Amid riots and mounting communal tension, a plan has been set afoot to assassinate Nehru—and Gandhi, if possible. And it’s up to secret agent Kimball O’Hara to foil it.
There is more mayhem that he will need to ward off. British officer Sir Denys Bromley-Pugh, a Nazi sympathizer, will stop at nothing to detonate a bomb at a Congress rally set to be addressed by Nehru. If he succeeds, instead of one, there will be dozens of partitions all over the country. Kim finds himself tangled in an elaborate game of disguise, bait, and patience to hack into Bromley-Pugh’s mind and halt the destruction of India.
In this sequel to Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, award-winning author Stephen Alter brings to life an older, wiser version of the mischievous young hero. Employed by the Imperial Secret Service, Kim is a shapeshifting agent slipping in and out of disguise— Indian one moment and an English sahib the next; now a horse trader, then a sanyasi.
Visceral in its intensity, The Greatest Game is a thrilling adventure featuring an unforgettable hero during the fraught run-up to Independence in India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephen Alter is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction. Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth, a work of non-fiction, received the 2020 Banff Mountain Book Award in the Mountain Environment and Natural History category. His memoir, Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime, won the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature. In the Jungles of the Night, a novel about Jim Corbett, was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. His latest work includes The Cobra’s Gaze: Exploring India’s Wild Heritage, Death in Shambles: A Hill Station Mystery, and Birdwatching: A Novel which won the 2023 Greenlitfest Book of the Year. Alter has taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, where he was director of the writing program for seven years. Following this, he was writer-in-residence at MIT for ten years. Among the honours he has received are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the East-West Center in Hawaii, and the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture.

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