City of Destruction

\'Vaseem Khan writes with charm and wit, and an eye for detail that transports the reader entirely. I couldn\'t love this series more\' CHRIS WHITAKER\'Historical fiction at its finest\' MAIL ON SUNDAYFrom the award-winning author of MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSE and THE LOST MAN OF BOMBAY comes a brilliant new mystery featuring the inimitable Persis Wadia.Bombay, 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India\'s first female police detective, Persis Wadia, kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate the divisive new defence minister, a man calling for war with India\'s new post-Independence neighbours. With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down the assassin\'s co-conspirators - aided by agents from Britain\'s MI6 security service - Persis is quickly relegated to the sidelines. But then she is given a second case, the burned body of an unidentified white man found on a Bombay beach. As she pursues both investigations - with and without official sanction - she soon finds herself headed to the country\'s capital, New Delhi, a city where ancient and modern India openly clash. Meanwhile, Persis\'s colleague, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life as all around him the country tears itself apart in the prelude to war... Σελίδες: 352, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0225, Διαστάσεις: 15x15cm