title: The Inner Opium War (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
author: James Polachek
description: <b>James M. Polachek</b> is an international markets analyst working for Baring Securities, Inc., in New York City.
zlib_text: CONTENTS
  
  [Cover](cover.xhtml)
  
  About the Book
  
  About the Author
  
  Also by Abir Mukherjee
  
  Dedication
  
  [Title Page](index_split_005.html#filepos6941)
  
  Epigraph
  
  One
  
  Two
  
  Three
  
  Four
  
  Five
  
  Six
  
  Seven
  
  Eight
  
  Nine
  
  Ten
  
  Eleven
  
  Twelve
  
  Thirteen
  
  Fourteen
  
  Fifteen
  
  Sixteen
  
  Seventeen
  
  Eighteen
  
  Nineteen
  
  Twenty
  
  Twenty-One
  
  Twenty-Two
  
  Twenty-Three
  
  Twenty-Four
  
  Twenty-Five
  
  Twenty-Six
  
  Twenty-Seven
  
  Twenty-Eight
  
  Twenty-Nine
  
  Thirty
  
  Thirty-One
  
  Thirty-Two
  
  Thirty-Three
  
  Thirty-Four
  
  Thirty-Five
  
  Thirty-Six
  
  Thirty-Seven
  
  Thirty-Eight
  
  Thirty-Nine
  
  Forty
  
  Author’s Note
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  Copyright
  
  ABOUT THE BOOK
  
   ****From the winner of the 2017 CWA Historical Dagger Award****
  
   **India, 1921**. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam
  Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from
  his superiors in the Calcutta police force.
  
  When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the
  sight of the body: he’s seen this before. L