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‘The name is Armitage Shanks, a bad joke at the best of times, which this surely isn’t. The name is Armitage Shanks, and tomorrow I’m going to die.’
Mumbai-based telecaster Taz Dhar receives a letter written by a stranger moments before his execution in some dank, dirty and cruel prison somewhere in the world.
The writer of the message appears to bear the improbable name: Armitage Shanks. Who was he? Where did he die? And why was he put to death?
As Taz pursues the answers, compelled by a journalist’s clinical compassion, she is drawn into a world where few people are quite what they seem and nowhere is quite as it first appears. Threatened but resolute, she is on a collision course with an all-powerful and unforgiving state unable to distinguish between dissent and terrorism.
Then there’s the problem with booze . . . And her boredom with the bland men in her life. It’s not easy being Taz Dhar.
Especially when she discovers the most horrifying truth of all . . .
By the author of the historical novel The Lords of Alijah, this story crosses four continents in a bleak world where those considered a threat to the even order of things can be spirited across borders and lost forever.
ISBN: 0143100521
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Pages : 320
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