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When sixteen year old John McNair was forced to leave his family home in the Scottish village of Newton Stewart, he was to be confronted with a sequence of events that would tragically change his life. A series of bad decisions by his best friend Davey McCallum, brought them into serious conflict with the local Glasgow police. To escape Davey's dark and volatile past, they enlisted in the British army and sailed to India, where they witnessed barbaric atrocities in one of history"s most brutal wars. While ensuing tragedies reared up and almost destroyed him, they also helped John to strengthen his reliance and trust in those whom he loved most. Through the fierce killings in India, political intrigue in London and murder and corruption on the Liverpool Docks, John's is not just a story of violence and brutality, but also of close friendships and love which endured the most testing of challenges.