
A police sharpshooter with Asperger's syndrome is tasked with cleaning up the streets of Mumbai in this "gripping thriller" (Booklist). In recent decades, ostensibly to combat the rising tide of criminality in Mumbai's underworld, the Indian Police Service has...

"A melancholy cop's obsessions are just the tip of the iceberg as he leads a two-fisted team determined to clean up Mumbai's mean streets . . . Kumar's style, blunt but often by turns poetic and droll, is arresting . . . As unusual as it is compelling, this entry lays the...