Description: These thrillers are bound to keep you at the edges of your seat. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, with its first-person narration, is like a gun of a book - so personal it becomes dangerous. At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter. This remains our curator's favourite book of the Thriller genre.
A Case of Exploding mangoes is equally thrilling. Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.
Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father's suspicious death, which the government calls a suicide. Ali's target is none other than General Zia ul-Haq, dictator of Pakistan. Enlisting a rag-tag group of conspirators, including his cologne-bathed roommate, a hash-smoking American lieutenant, and a mango-besotted crow, Ali sets his elaborate plan in motion. There's only one problem: the line of would-be Zia assassins is longer than he could have possibly known.
Consists of: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Like New), A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Like New)
