Amazon.com description: Product Description: First in the acclaimed series of James Ogilvie adventures James Ogilvie, commander of the Queen's Own Royal Strathspeys, is pitchforked with mixed feelings into Sandhurst and then into the family regiment. As a subaltern en route for India in 1894, he finds his regiment's posting has been advanced due to a frontier flare-up. He has no time to discover how suited he is to military life, the command of men or meeting the expectations of an irascible father - who is also his Divisional Commander. The young second lieutenant has much to learn as the Royal Strathspeys are sent through the Khyber Pass to contain the rebel Ahmed outside Jalabad.