The Traitor's Bargain

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Betrayal reshaped a kingdom - and gave birth to an empire.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An enthralling story of nationalism filled with historical touches and lush details. - <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In the summer of 1757 Bengal - jewel of the East - stands on a precipice. The East India Company once mere merchants now manoeuvre to unseat a dynasty. The fiery young Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah is hemmed in by betrayal. Around him a banker pulls the strings behind the throne. A nobleman torn between loyalty and survival makes a fateful choice. A Company soldier begins to doubt the masters he serves. And the son of an aristocrat finds himself at the head of a peasant revolt.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Their paths converge in a time of shifting power and rising rebellion as the fury of a devastated land meets the appetite of foreign merchants. Every decision becomes a wager-and every betrayal a reckoning.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A vivid portrait of ambition audacity betrayal and resistance based on real events and grounded in meticulous research </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Traitor's Bargain</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> brings to life one of the most consequential turning points in Indian history.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Recognised globally as one of the most respected literary review platforms Kirkus praised the novel's lyrical prose immersive realism and emotional power-calling it both sweeping in scope and intimate in human truth.</strong></p>