Although he’s now hidden in a company of East India soldiers, Bill ‘Smudger’ Smith still harbours an intention to escape.
These plans are put on hold, however, when his former life as a wharf rat comes back to haunt him.
Bill is a skilled thief with a sharp talent for deception. When the Company needs one of their men to infiltrate the fortress of Seringapatam, it falls to Smudger to gather the necessary intel to take down Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore.
Will he succeed in his mission? And what will it mean for his ultimate plans for freedom?
Finding himself increasingly tied to his fellow soldiers, the Devil’s Dozen, will Bill be able to part from his new-found family? Or are his adventures with the East India Company destined to continue?
The Tiger and the Thief by Griff Hosker is published on 2 May, 2025. It’s the second in his East Indiaman Saga series.
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