In a dingy room in Madras a boy of 19 puts a flintlock pistol to his head and pulls the trigger. The pistol fails to go off and Robert Clive's first attempt at suicide has failed.
With his friend Edmund Maskelyne he obtains a commission in the army of the East Indian Company and his fantastic military career begins- his brilliant defence of Arcot makes him a national hero overnight; his crushing defeat of the combined armies of the French and the Narwab of Bengal at Plassey is the moment when the British Empire in India is finally born. After that the politicians take over and Clive finds himself in conflict with the scheming Warren Hastings in India, the powerful elder Pitt and the corrupt Sir Francis Dashwood, founder of the 'Hell Fire Club', at home...
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