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In the winter of 1876, the beautiful young madam India Black is occupied with her usual tasks - keeping her tarts in line, avoiding the police, and tolerating the clergman bent on converting her girls.  But when Sir Archibald Latham of the War Office dies from a heart attack while visiting her brothel, India is unexpectedly thrust into a deadly game between Russian and British agents who are seeking the military secrets Latham carried.  French, the Britsh spy, discovers India disposing of Latham's body and blackmails her into recovering the missing documents.  Their quest takes them from the Russian embassy to Claridge's Hotel, from London to the coast of France.