City of Destruction

Vaseem Khan

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.

Author(s): Khan, Vaseem
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 04/09/2025
Pagination: 341 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Hodder
Published By: Hodder
Book Classification: Crime & mystery fiction|Thriller / suspense fiction|Historical fiction
Dimensions: 196x128x26
Weight: 247
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781399707695