Author: Khair, Tabish
Title: The Thing About Thugs
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. First printing. Hardcover. 244pp. 22 cm. very good condition/very good d.j. In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous Thugee cult. With tales of a murderous youth redeemed, Ali gains passage to England, his villainously shaped skull there to be studied. Only Ali knows just how embroidered his story is, so when a killer begins depriving London's underclass of their heads, suspicion naturally falls on the "thug." With help from fellow immigrants led by a shrewd Punjabi woman, Ali journeys deep into a hostile city in an attempt to save himself and end the gruesome murders.

Keywords: Thugs (Indic Criminal Group)--Fiction; Indic Fiction (English); Mystery & Detective Fiction


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