"The Man Who Would Be King" is the story of two British ex-soldiers that decide to set themselves up as kings of Kafiristan (now part of Afghanistan). They raise some money by blackmailing a local Raj’ and by some rifles. Then using their skills as soldiers they muster an army of mercenaries and begin to conquer Kafiristan village by village. Following the path of Alexander the Great took two thousand years before only to discover that there is a strange secret that unites the land.