Smoke And Ashes Abir Mukherjee Harvill Secker 2018 333 Pages Calcutta, 1921. Captain Sam Wyndham of the British Imperial Police stumbles on the mutilated corpse of a Chinaman near an opium den in the midst of a police raid. However, Captain Wyndham has a serious problem; he’s not there in any official capacity but as an opium addict seeking his next “fix”. And discovery of his hitherto imperfectly concealed addiction could write finis to his career if his brother officers in the police force catch him at it… A psychologically damaged veteran of Military Intelligence in World War 1 whose late, sorely missed wife was a victim of the postwar influenza epidemic, Wyndham has moved to India for a fresh start - and to put his skills as a former homicide investigator with Scotland Yard to use in the service of the British Raj. However, Calcutta proves an infuriating