Description du livre
‘An important debut. Brilliant, with an authentic “desi” touch. A must
read.’ – Surender Mohan Pathak
‘Flavourful as butter chicken, as unputdownable as a Patiala peg.’ –
Samrat Choudhury, author of The Urban Jungle Book
‘This brilliantly crafted noir thriller gets everything right from the
determined detective to the femme fatales. It keeps you entertained as
you zig and zag through the plot, feel nervous excitement during the
twists, fall in love with the characters, and laugh your butts off at the
funnies.’ – Jugal Mody, author of Toke
‘A thriller set in the Visa Section? Against all the odds, it works. Absurd
fun, but with an authentic taste of India too. A bit uncharitable about
the cricket team though.’ – Simon ‘Bruce’ Denyer, author of Rogue
Elephant
‘An electrifying thriller debut’ – Mint Lounge
Dominic ‘Biscuit’ McLeod is an expert in making the best of a
bad situation. As a visa fraud investigator at the Australian High
Commission, New Delhi, Biscuit is legendary for his prowess in
drinking beer, playing cricket, and swearing like a Dilliwallah, until
the tragic death of a junior colleague forces him to become something
else – a conspiracy theorist who can’t let go.
Armed only with a hangover, a loathing for authority, and an inability
to believe the lies that he is being told, Biscuit stumbles from crisis to
catastrophe in a shambolic search for the truth. From the villages of
Punjab to the cricket fields of Delhi, and the walled compounds of
Gurgaon and Chanakyapuri, with dodgy visa agents, crooked cops,
Aussie journalists, Afghani pimps and American spies for company,
it looks like Biscuit will never solve the case, or leave the party early.
A bold, comic debut, The Sad Demise of Manpreet Singh is a novel
about the things people will do to leave the places they don’t want to
be – and the lengths others will go to try and stop them.'