A very interesting book about a kind of obscure part of history. I liked this in particular because I know almost nothing about British India, I may have to read up some more about it. This was a great book because it covered two of my favourite genres: killers &amp; history.It's basically about this network of 'Thugs' who travelled around the roads in old India strangling thousands of people and taking all their stuff. Very interesting.As with most historical books, the author went a little overboard with the notes &amp; references section at the back. I wish authors would use that space to tell more of the story, and instead just have a brief URL on the last page for more info (I've seen some authors actually do this). Can't believe I found this book in a thift store for $3! I'd also recommend Dash's book "Batavia's Graveyard" which is one of my all-time favourite historical novels.

Thug: The True Story of India's Murderous Cult

Never in recorded history has there been a group of murderers as deadly as the Thugs. For nearly two centuries, groups of these lethal criminals haunted the roads of India, slaughtering travellers whom they met along the way with such efficiency that over the years tens of thousands of men, women and children simply vanished without trace. Mike Dash, one of our best popular historians, has devoted years to combing archives in both India and Britain to discover how the Thugs lived and worked. Painstakingly researched and grippingly written. Thug tells, for the first time the full story of the Thugs' rise and fall from its beginnings in the late seventeenth century to its eventual demise at the hands of British officer William Sleeman, in 1840.

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