A historical novel loosely woven around India’s most successful fighter pilot.

It is 1917, and Indra Lal Roy is preparing to go to war. Brought up and schooled in England, he is expected to fight for king and country. Yet on the other side of the world, in the homeland he scarcely knows, Indian nationalists are fighting against the British.

The story encompasses the failed Ghadar Mutiny, the War Poets Sassoon and Owen, and the last true cavalry charge -- the Jodhpur Lancers at Haifa. It throws light on the German gunrunning efforts to ship 4,000 American rifles to Indian revolutionaries , and touches upon Aurobindo Ghose's bombing campaign in Calcutta. Roy is at a crossroad in history and must face conflicting loyalties, racial prejudice, temperamental aircraft and the murderous skills of Germany’s best fliers. It is 1917, and in the perilous skies over the Western Front Roy comes of age and flies to his destiny.