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A Novel
HarperCollins
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
928 pages
ISBN: 0061130354
EAN: 9780061130359
Hardcover
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Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of
exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws
the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and
into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most
wanted gangster in India. Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs on the Mumbai police
force, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and
the sharp cut of his trousers. But "the silky Sikh" is now
past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects
are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip-off as
to the secret hide-out of the legendary boss of G-Company,
he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize. Vikram Chandra's keenly anticipated new novel is a
magnificent story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible
violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side.
Drawing inspiration from the classics of nineteenth-century
fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's own
life and research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games
evokes with devastating realism the way we live now but
resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the
best of literature.
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