Half decent. The story wasn't ground-breaking, or particularly exciting - it was clear 20 pages in where the plot was going; it just took about 100 pages to get there. What enjoyment I got out of this was mostly due to linguistic factors - a certain amount of jingoistic, British colonial Hinglish, a smattering of actual Indian words, and a slyly entertaining jargon of French pseudo-cognates. I don't regret having read it, but I don't think I gained in this, either.