On the day that Hindu nationalists and their controversial leader have won a
spectacular election victory, a large apartment building collapses in Mumbai.
The rescue operation finds only one survivor, a man trapped under a beam,
mumbling in delirium. But what he is saying is that two people are on their way
to carry out a terror attack. Not only must they get him out, the police must find
out what he knows, and act quickly.; A young woman, Akhila Iyer, a medical student but also a notorious prankster,
has rushed to the scene. She is small and light enough to crawl along to the
tunnel to the dying man to administer painkillers as they try to dig him out of the
rubble. Akhila is the only link between him and the police, hearing what he is
whispering.; Elsewhere, a young intelligence agent, Mukundan, is assigned to shadow the
two terror suspects, one of whom is a teenager and the sweetheart of her
street, the enigmatic Laila. And so the chase is on ...; Manu Joseph's new novel poses some very big questions, but at its heart
are the ordinary people, the watchers and the followers, and those who are
trapped when buildings fall.
- ISBN13 9781912408108
- Publish Date 12 May 2018 (first published 13 September 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Myriad Editions
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English