Talbot Mundy's novel, "Hookum Hai" is a wartime adventure novel set in the sweltering heat of British India in the 19th century. Sergeant William 'Bill' Brown commands a platoon of twelve soldiers, sent to guard an erstwhile lonely crossroad connecting two British settlements. But if Bill thinks the work will be uneventful, then he has another thing coming, for deep beneath the surface, rebellion is simmering among the native population, portending a fierce uprising ahead…
