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City of Destruction

By Vaseem Khan

City of Destruction Action & Adventure

City of Destruction

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'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, 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...
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2025-09-04
Publication Date:
2026-06-01
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1399707698
ISBN13:
9781399707695
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
250 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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