Published by Faber 2004 Paperback, 2004
ISBN 10: 0571221173 ISBN 13: 9780571221172
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. Opium is the story of a world-weary young American who has spent a substantial part of his thirty-something years in the Middle East. Formerly a low-level drug-runner along the Afghan/Iran border, he is now living in New York and keeping a low profile as a simple hotel clerk. But in the new age of mass terror Chase's past inevitably catches up to him, and he finds himself on a quest that thrusts him through three continents where he is confronted by drug dealers and assassins, Middle Eastern agents and embittered Western converts to Islam, as well as powerful Moslem Shiite clerics who run the clandestine arm of one of the most insidious security services ever assembled. Finding himself in this maze of intrigue, murder and double-deals, he sees no option but to play a lethal end-game in the heart of the Axis of Evil. ex lib 302 pages.
Published by Faber and Faber 2004 Paperback, 2004
ISBN 10: 0571217427 ISBN 13: 9780571217427
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. Minty Mehta (aka MM) likes to play dangerously - he is making a documentary about the Indian army's conflict with the Pakistanis but drug-fuelled parachute jumping with Major Rodrigues is only part of the fun. Things are due to get serious at Bunker 13 - some very re-saleable military hardware and 100kg of the finest grade heroin lands in the Indian officers' possession. Using his cover as a magazine editor, MM orchestrates a deadly game of quadruple cross, involving the Indian Secret Service and the Army. But what he hasn't accounted for is the effect his affair with the boss's daughter will have on his complicated twilight life . . . 352 pages.
Published by Faber & Faber 2004 Paperback, 2004
ISBN 10: 0571221815 ISBN 13: 9780571221813
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. Somewhere in England, not long ago. In an unnamed town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and then on a snow-covered January morning Chanda's brothers are arrested for murder. 'Maps for Lost Lovers' tells the story of the next twelve months. What follows is the unravelling of all that is sacred to Jugnu's brother and sister-in-law, Shamas and Kaukab. As the seasons pass Kaukab tries desperately to maintain her Islamic piety as she struggles to come to terms with double murder and its corrosive effect on her family. 379 pages.