The Way of an Eagle novel (1919) opens in India, as scapegrace Nick Ratcliffe rescues Muriel, the generals daughter, from dire peril. Between starvation and attack, death is almost certain.
Nick is small, odd-looking, and unpredictable. Repelled yet fascinated by his mockery and ferocity his way of an eagle she agrees to a betrothal, then breaks it off for clean-cut Blake Grange.
But when she returns to India Nick, now maimed in his countrys service, is nowhere to be seen until new peril strikes.
