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The   Burghers who drive these Iron Demons have a penchant for challenging   authority and courting trouble, sometimes just to liven things up in the   railway outposts... and so it is that Sonnaboy and Meerwald chase a large   group of villagers all across Anuradhapura, mother-naked but not much   bothered by it, Ben Godlieb conjures up a corpse in his cowcatcher, Dickie   Byrd single-handedly demolishes a Pentecostal Mission and is hailed as the   messiah of the Railway fraternity, and Basil Van der Smaght filches a human   heart and feeds it to the Nawalapitiya railway staff ...and to cap it all,   Sonnaboy takes French Leave to act in The Bridge on the River Kwai! '(Muller)   tells his tale with a gentle humour often bordering on tenderness, but   couched in the vigorous rugged localese. Almost immediately we find ourselves   empathizing with Muller's roistering band that sins and prays with equal   zest.' -Business Standard '... 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