Nicholas Cooper

The sweep of love, loss and redemption across two continents

(The Loves and Adventures of Adam Busk - Book 3)

The Circle must be completed

It is late 1970, and time for Adam to leave the mountain retreat where he had settled following his overland  journey from England to India.

He must now contemplate the return via the same precarious route, made more so by the coming of winter.

He is hoping to be re-united with Belinda, from whom he had set off months earlier with her blessing.

But, circumstances intervene and he finds himself in the heart of Bombay, where he brushes with the criminal underworld and a new-found lover.

By way of corrupt officials and the funeral pyres of Benares, he eventually starts the long journey back to Europe and the realisation of his greatest fears.

Ultimately, many years later, India beckons again, raising the spectre of Adam’s past and a final decision that has to be made.

This last book has been a long time in the writing as I had always thought the completion of Kamala woud be the end.

But the story had more to it and had to be written.

Here too, I have brought my own story to bear, whilst adapting and creating characters to weave the tale.

As in Kamala, an epic journey is undertaken, enduringly connecting Asia and India in particular, with Europe and England.

The contrasts are enormous, but deeply embedded in each culture.

The experience of India is life changing for anyone but, for an Englishman, the experience is something very special.

Such is the case for our hero, Adam Busk, for whom that Ethereal Circle must be completed.

 As with my earlier books, I have woven my own experience into a story that stands on its own, but forms a completion to the other two.