Raj Vol. 1: The Missing Nabobs Of The City Of God
By (Author) Wilbur
Illustrated by Conrad Didier
Cinebook Ltd
Cinebook Ltd
26th May 2022
26th May 2022
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
741.5944
Paperback
48
Width 217mm, Height 286mm
Bombay, 1831. Freshly arrived from London, Alexander Martin reports to his new boss at the Indian Political Service - a government agency whose function is little more than helping the East India Company expand its grasp upon the Indian subcontinent. The enthusiastic, somewhat idealistic young man soon begins displeasing the British establishment, and is shunned by Bombay's polite society... until several of its members begin disappearing, forcing Alexander to investigate...
Didier Conrad is well known as Yann's partner-in-crime on such deliciously black comedy series as Les Innommables, or Lucky Luke spin-off Kid Lucky, but also for more personal series such as Le pige Malais - as well as for having been chose to take over Asterix. Wilbur is the pseudonym of Sylvie Commenge, Conrad's spouse, who wrote several of his series, including under her own name.