The Enfield Conspiracy - Paperbackby Ken Brewer (Author) Following personal tragedy Devonshire bom Nicholas Reede joins the British army as a teenage Ensign and is sent to India to become involved in the fighting at Lucknow during the Indian mutiny of 1857 where he is badly wounded undertaking an outstanding act of bravery. The senior British officer trapped there when the mutiny erupted had been on route to London with a secret dispatch containing information about an assassination