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The Deceivers
The Deceivers is a 1952 novel by John Masters on the Thuggee movement in India during British imperial rule.
Synopsis.
The story shows how British officer and colonial administrator William Savage comes to know about the thuggee cult, infiltrates their society, learns their ways and code of communication, and destroys them by capturing or killing their key leaders. During his travels with the thuggee he almost falls prey to the cult's ways as he comes to experience the ecstasy of ritual killings. The story shows how complex
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War" ; Scribner, New York, 2004, pp. 561–62, 815
- British National Archives, ""A" Force Permanent Record File, Narrative War Diary, CAB 154/4" pp. 85–90