Kimball O’Hara is nobody’s idea of a spy. He is, however, exactly what the British Secret Service needs. Street-smart and fluent in more languages than most diplomats, young Kim is recruited to gather intelligence across British India — a land of dusty bazaars, jungle roads, and people as vivid and contradictory as the country itself. Along the way, an unlikely friendship with a wandering Tibetan lama forces Kim to ask the one question no mission briefing can answer. Where does a boy like Kim truly belong?