War looms, then implodes, in the astounding final book of Amitav Ghosh鈥檚 spectacular 鈥淚bis鈥 trilogy. This third book follows the marvelous cast of characters developed in the first two volumes from India to China, through the outbreak of the First Opium War, and on to the conflict鈥檚 devastating conclusion. (CSMonitor.com review, 8/4/15)
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 616 pp.)