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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I actually read that novelization a couple of months ago.
In a word: No.
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Thanks for letting me know! The morbid curiosity is satisfied, for now. (Although now I'm even more morbidly curious about how much of a trainwreck the original film, which was apparently loosely based on the actual board game but failed to transcend its source material like
Clue: The Movie did, was. Must… resist… urge to rubberneck…)
Anyway, another, hopefully better deep-discount bargain @ $0.99/£0.99 from Hodder & Stoughton (non-couponable, available in at least Canada & US & UK; price should be the same at all the usual retailers):
Land of Hope and Glory (different listings for
CA/US &
UK) by South African author Geoffrey Wilson (
ISFDB), 1st in a steampunk & sorcery alternate history fantasy series set in a reverse-Raj 19th century where India has the dominant magic-based empire of which Britain is one of the backward conquered colonies.
The rest of the series is also discounted to £1.99/$2.99 CAD and £2.99/$3.99 CAD for the remaining installments, if you happen to like this one.
It is 1852. The Indian empire of Rajthana has ruled Europe for more than a hundred years. With their vast armies, steam-and-sorcery technology and mastery of the mysterious power of sattva, the Rajthanans appear invincible. But a bloody rebellion has broken out in a remote corner of the empire, in a poor and backward region known as England. At first Jack Casey, retired soldier, wants nothing to do with the uprising, but then he learns his daughter, Elizabeth, is due to be hanged for helping the rebels. The Rajthanans offer to spare her, but only if Jack hunts down and captures his best friend and former army comrade, who is now a rebel leader. Jack is torn between saving his daughter and protecting his friend. And he struggles just to stay alive as the rebellion pushes England into all-out war.