The Khan

'Bold, addictive and brilliant.' Stylist, best fiction 2021A Times BestsellerA Times & Sunday Times Best Crime Books of 2021A Waterstones Thriller of The MonthBe twice as good as men and four times as good as white men.Jia Khan has always lived like this.Successful London lawyer Jia Khan is a long way from the Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father, Akbar Khan, led the Pakistani community and ran the local organised crime syndicate.Often his Jirga rule - the old way - was violent and bloody, but it was always justice of a kind.Now, with her father murdered, Jia must return to take his place. Justice needs to be restored, and Jia is about to discover that justice always comes at a cost.'A fascinating glimpse into a world rarely portrayed in fiction.' Guardian, best crime and thrillers'A once-in-a-generation crime thriller.' A.A.Dhand, author of Streets of Darkness

About the author

Saima Mir has written for The Times, Guardian and Independent. Her essay for It's Not About The Burqa (Picador) appeared in Guardian Weekend and received over 250,000 hits online in two days. She has also contributed to the anthology The Best, Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood. Saima grew up in Bradford and now lives in London.

Product details

• Authors: Saima Mir
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780861540891
• ISBN: 978-0-86154-089-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Islam, Pakistan, FICTION / General, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, RELIGION / Islam / General, Social & cultural history, Women's health, North & North East England, Organized crime, Fiction: general and literary, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Fiction: mashup, Street Crime / Gun Crime, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Legal systems: judges and judicial powers