FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS THE INSANE LIFE OF AN ENGLISH SMUGGLER IN BOMBAY

<p>Description</p><p>Midnight 15 August 1947. As India's tryst with destiny reverberated across</p><p>the world Charlie Strongbow born in Bombay a renegade Englishman</p><p>mercenary philosopher and schizophrenic began his own bizarre journey.</p><p>While nascent India floundered and struggled Charlie along with an</p><p>English goon called Thommo a devious accountant named Willie a vicious</p><p>Portuguese temptress Dona Maria and twenty British desperadoes took</p><p>possession of Cross Island near the Bombay Docks. Here they functioned in</p><p>illegal harmony bound by no rules and no principles and set about building a</p><p>black-market trade between Southampton and Bombay.</p><p>There was no stopping Charlie-but for memories of his own past filled with</p><p>the misery of childhood abuse and guilt at having abandoned his daughters. As</p><p>he drank himself to senselessness and let his inner demons take over Detective</p><p>Desai a man Charlie had destroyed raised an unrelenting war against Cross</p><p>Island. But the severest blow of all would be struck by Dona Maria...</p><p>Based on true events Four and Twenty Blackbirds is an utterly gripping novel-</p><p>the disturbing astonishing story of an Englishman who won everything but</p><p>lost his soul on a no man's land in the Arabian Sea.</p><p><br></p>