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 SUNDAY From 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, 1950. A political rally ends in tragedy when Persis kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate India''s divisive Home Minister, a man calling for war with neighbouring Pakistan. With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down his co-conspirators, Persis is given a second case when the burned body of an unidentified white man is found on a Bombay beach. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life, as all around him the country tears itself apart as a prelude to war...

Product details

• Authors: Vaseem Khan, Khan Vaseem
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781399707664
• ISBN: 978-1-399-70766-4
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: The Malabar House Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Crime, Historical fiction, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery fiction