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By Amitav Ghosh
A saga of flight and pursuit, this novel chronicles the adventures of Alu, a tender weaver who's wrongly suspected of being a terrorist. Chased from Bengal to Bombay and on during the Persian Gulf to North Africa via a bird-watching police inspector, Alu encounters alongside the best way a solid of characters as a variety of and as vibrant because the epithets with which the writer embellishes them. The reader is drawn into their lives via incidents smooth and outrageous and all compellingly instructed. Ghosh is as ordinary a weaver of phrases as Alu is of fabric, deftly interlacing humour and knowledge to provide a story tapestry of surpassing good looks.
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Oh, Tom! " Mary seemed much alarmed, and again begged Tom to be on his guard, which he promised to do. Had Mary known the warnings uttered by Lieutenant Marbury she might have had more occasion for worry. " asked his companion, when the two men had strolled out of sight, and the young people were on their way back to the launch. "Well, it's possible. I have been warned that foreign spies are trying to get hold of some of my patents, and also to hamper the government in the use of some others I have sold.
Nothing definite enough to warrant us in acting," was the answer of the government man. " asked Ned impulsively. "The French! " "Tell him about Eradicate, and the man who wanted to buy the mule, Tom," suggested Ned, Thereupon the young inventor mentioned the story told by Eradicate. He also brought out the fire−bomb, and explained his theory as to how it had operated to set the red shed ablaze. "I think you are right," said Lieutenant Marbury. " Ned exclaimed. "So they are, in a certain measure," the officer went on.
THE CAPTURE Tom Swift was something like a fireman. He had lived so long in an atmosphere of constant alarms and danger, that he was always ready for almost any emergency. His room was equipped with the end in view that he could act promptly and effectively. So, when he heard Eradicate's alarm, though he wondered what the old colored man was doing out of bed at that hour, Tom did not stop to reason out that puzzle. He acted quickly. His first care was to throw on the main switch, connected with a big storage battery, and to which were attached the wires of the lighting system.