The winter light was already beginning to slant low over Lahore on the afternoon of December 17, 1928, when a young Englishman named John Poyntz Saunders walked out of the District Police Headquarters toward his motorcycle. He was only twenty-one, barely more than a boy in the eyes of the empire he served, born in Peterborough and newly arrived in the ranks of the Indian Police Service less than two years before. Beside him walked Head Constable Chanan Singh, and neither man had any reason to suspect that this ordinary…
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