A story of greed, corruption and abuse.
Based in India this book follows a group of people.
A boy from an impoverished village that is sold into servitude.
A rich spoilt brat, the son of gangster whose raping villagers of their land and children.
A journalist who wants to get to the bottom of everything that is happening in the villages, only to find herself in a world of alcohol and drugs that sends her life spiralling out of control
There lives are thrown together, over years, the good becoming bad and the bad becoming worse.
At the core of the story is greed, corruption and the Caste System.
One thing that this cooking pot of characters, greed, and corruption is sure to bring is an explosive end.
What it delivers is a slow building pressure cooker of a story that had me hooked from the very beginning.
My allegiances changed as I moved through the book. My liking for some characters changed to hate, my hate for others ……just got worse, but it added to the magnetism of the story.
Brilliant.
If you are a person that only reads one book a year, and are looking for that poolside read.
This is it.
Pages: 589. Publisher: Fleet. Available now
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