Kim

A blend of spy novel, adventure, and picaresque tale, Rudyard Kipling confessed that he wrote it as his own personal tribute to Don Quixote. The young Kimball O’Hara, Kim, orphaned by an English soldier and an Irish mother, ekes out a living near the British garrison in Lahore, where he passes as an Indian. He becomes involved in the Great Game, a mysterious intelligence network established in India by the government of Her Majesty Queen Victoria to control the Russian Empire. Recruited by the horse trader and spy Mahbub Ali, Kim becomes a courier of secret messages thanks to his friendship with a lama traveling across the country in search of the Arrow River, whom he guides, his ‘chela’.