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The Party Worker
Bestselling author Omar Shahid Hamid's third and most chilling novel yet. A burnt out New York cop, an eighty-year-old Parsi sitting in a decaying Karachi mansion, a hit-man whose days are numbered, a journalist who dreams of the big time. When a Jewish woman is killed on the steps of the Natural History Museum in New York, disparate lives are thrown together for one purpose - To bring about the downfall of the Don, the uncrowned king of Karachi. The Party Worker explores the Machiavellian politics of Pakistan's busiest city, where friends come bearing bullets and enemies can wait patiently for decades before striking. Gritty, disturbing and compelling, this is Omar Shahid Hamid at his best. Praise for Omar Shahid Hamid.,I strongly suggest that Western policy makers read The Prisoner before they next call for a military crackdown on Islamist militancy in Pakistan New York Review of Books., An exhilarating crime novel Hamids portrayal of the city, the police and the byzantine political play is nuanced and sophisticated NPR.,A book that one simply will not be able to put down Dawn.,gripping crime thriller with a heart-wrenching denouement a haunting human-interest story Hindu.,No matter how many books Omar Shahid Hamid writes, he will never fail to give you an ending you never, in your wildest dreams, expected Deccan Chronicle., racy page-turner, a rollicking ride but with dark undertones Hamid has established his status as the first Pakistani crime writer writing in English Friday Times.
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The Spinner's Tale
A racy thriller about two friends whose lives diverge drastically when one of them becomes an infamous jihadi militant. Sheikh Ahmed Uzair Sufi is one of the most feared men in Pakistan, a top Jihadi militant, who believes in nothing save his own limitless scope for violence. But no one suspected this future back in 1994, when he was simple old Ausi and leaves school with his cricket mad best friend Eddy to start a new life. While Eddy goes to college in America, Ausi's life takes dangerous and unexpected turns. The two friends stay in touch even as they pursue vastly different lives, their shared passion for cricket and nostalgia for their school days binding them together. Even as Ausi treads down a darker path, what will happen to their friendship? Omar Shahid Hamid, bestselling author of The Prisoner, takes us on another thrilling, sinister ride, stretching from Karachi to Kashmir to Afghanistan, in The Spinner's Tale.