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William Rhode Paperback Raita (Uk Edition)
SIMON & SCHUSTER (TRADE DIVI 20030106 0-7434-4029-3 / 9780743440295 TRADE PAPER Near Fine
Paperback Raita, William Rhode's cracking debut novel, really does have it all: "drugs, diamonds, exotic locations, sexy girl, the plan that goes horr ibly wrong". It also, unfortunately, has an implausible, contrived, if none theless still enjoyable, opening premise. Its central character and narrato r Joshua King must write a bestselling novel featuring his late father to c laim his five million-pound inheritance. Joshua has never previously shown any aptitude for fiction; he's your typical English traveller in India. He' s bummed about, taken drugs and once or twice scribbled an article for the Hindu Week newspaper. Of course, all that is about to change. A police drug s raid on his Delhi doss-house brings Josh into contact with the oh-so-gorg eous Yasmin. Her boyfriend James has been dragged off and slung in prison. Could the raid be the work of the mysterious Baba, a Bollywood film mogul t urned drug trafficker and diamond smuggler, whom Josh believes could supply him with both a scoop for the paper and the material for his bestseller? Y asmin, Josh and his old friend Sanjay, quickly form a cunning plan to rip o ff Baba, free James and, with any luck, finish up with a healthy stack of c ash. Easy, obviously. Murders, home cooked pakoras, heroin deals, stolen mo torbikes, double-crossing dames and all manner of subcontinental plots and counter plots ensue until the whole thing judders to a fittingly post-moder n conclusion. THE TIMES 'A rollicking Anglo-Indian thriller with a twist ... Rhode has a wickedly ironic sense of humour: think Kipling's PLAIN TALES told by a 21st Century PG Wodehouse'
Price:
400.00 JPY
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