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The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Manby Daniel StashowerISBN 014008343X (0-14-008343-X)
Softcover, Penguin
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Agatha Christie: A Biographyby Janet P. MorganISBN 0060970308 (0-06-097030-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Always a Body to Tradeby K.C. ConstantineISBN 0140070591 (0-14-007059-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Art of Survivalby A. E. MaxwellISBN 0061041157 (0-06-104115-7)
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Atticusby Ron HansenISBN 0060927860 (0-06-092786-0)
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The Best Cellarby Charles GoodrumISBN 0060809310 (0-06-080931-0)
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Bethlehem Road Murder: A Michael Ohayon Mysteryby Batya Gur, Vivian EdenISBN 0060954922 (0-06-095492-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bethlehem Road Murder: A Michael Ohayon Mystery'Book summary:The body of a young Yemeni woman is discovered in the attic of a Bethlehem Road house, in a Jerusalem neighborhood famous for its impenetrability to outsiders. The victim, once a beauty, is no longer lovely -- her face has been brutally smashed.
More than the usual horror greets Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon in the closed and inscrutable Baka, for an old love and an unfinished romance await him there as well. But much more is concealed beneath the surface of this gruesome homicide -- as tensions between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, hostility between Arabs and Jews, the half-century-old business of kidnapped Yemenite children, and the al Aqsa Intifada of 2000 add fuel to a terrible fire that might never be contained.
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Better Off Wed: An Annabelle Archer Mysteryby Laura DurhamISBN 0060738316 (0-06-073831-6)
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Big Clockby Kenneth FearingISBN 0060805005 (0-06-080500-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Blood Brotherhoodby Robert BarnardISBN 0140065520 (0-14-006552-0)
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Boy Next Doorby Meg CabotISBN 0060845546 (0-06-084554-6)
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Brandstetter and Othersby Joseph HansenISBN 0140077383 (0-14-007738-3)
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Brown-Eyed Girlby Virginia SwiftISBN 0061030309 (0-06-103030-9)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Caroline Minusculeby Andrew TaylorISBN 0140070990 (0-14-007099-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Chelsea Murdersby Lionel DavidsonISBN 0140051368 (0-14-005136-8)
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Clockersby Richard PriceISBN 0060934980 (0-06-093498-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clockers'Book summary:Award-winning author Richard Price offers a viscerally affecting and accomplished portrait of inner-city America.
Veteran homicide detective Rocco Klein's passion for the job gave way long ago. His beat is a rough New Jersey neighborhood where the drug murders blur together ... until the day Victor Dunham -- a twenty-year-old with a steady job and a clean record -- confesses to a shooting outside a fast-food joint. It doesn't take long for Rocco's attention to turn to Victor's brother, a street-corner crack dealer named Strike who seems a more likely suspect for the crime. At once an intense mystery, and a revealing study of two men on opposite sides of an unwinnable war, Clockers is a stunningly well-rendered chronicle of modern life on the streets.
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Cold Pursuitby T. Jefferson ParkerISBN 006059327X (0-06-059327-X)
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Color Blindby Jonathan SantloferISBN 0060541059 (0-06-054105-9)
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The Color Of Deathby Elizabeth LowellISBN 0060726873 (0-06-072687-3)
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Cook's Night Outby Joanne PenceISBN 0061043966 (0-06-104396-6)
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Cooking Up Troubleby Joanne PenceISBN 0061082007 (0-06-108200-7)
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Corpse Diplomatiqueby Delano AmesISBN 0060806370 (0-06-080637-0)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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Cross Dressingby Bill FitzhughISBN 0060815248 (0-06-081524-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cross Dressing'Book summary:Big-shot ad exec Dan Steele feels entitled to the best life has to offer -- even if he has to live way beyond his means to acquire it. But there's hope on the horizon. Dan has just stolen what's sure to be an award-winning idea for a multimillion-dollar account. If he can keep the creditors at bay long enough, he'll get the keys to the executive restroom and all his problems will be solved.
Unfortunately, that's when his brother, a Catholic priest, shows up at Dan's door in need of a loan to pay for some essential medical attention. Being both financially and morally challenged, Dan hands over his insurance card instead of his credit card. But it's too late. After running up a bill for $300,000, Father Michael goes the way of all flesh.
Now Dan has a choice: go to prison for insurance fraud or take a vow of poverty and become a man of the cloth. Before he can say "God bless," Dan finds himself pursued by a relentless insurance investigator, the psychopathic copywriter whose idea he stole, and a deadly killer from his brother's mysterious past. And, as if that wasn't enough, Dan finds himself falling in love with a gun-toting nun. Let us pray.
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Death Takes a Bowby Frances Lockridge, Richard LockridgeISBN 0060925167 (0-06-092516-7)
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Deep Sea Deadby Lori AvocatoISBN 0060837004 (0-06-083700-4)
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The Dogs of Warby Frederick ForsythISBN 0091205603 (0-09-120560-3)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dogs of War'Book summary:great read first edition old library book and heavly marked as such. all pages and jacket are intact [via]
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Eaters of the Deadby Michael CrichtonISBN 0060891564 (0-06-089156-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eaters of the Dead'Book summary:Michael Crichton takes the listener on a one-thousand-year-old journey in his adventure novel Eaters Of The Dead. This remarkable true story originated from actual journal entries of an Arab man who traveled with a group of Vikings throughout northern Europe. In 922 A.D, Ibn Fadlan, a devout Muslim, left his home in Baghdad on a mission to the King of Saqaliba. During his journey, he meets various groups of "barbarians" who have poor hygiene and gorge themselves on food, alcohol and sex. For Fadlan, his new traveling companions are a far stretch from society in the sophisticated "City of Peace." The conservative and slightly critical man describes the Vikings as "tall as palm trees with florid and ruddy complexions." Fadlan is astonished by their lustful aggression and their apathy towards death. He witnesses everything from group orgies to violent funeral ceremonies. Despite the language and cultural barriers, Ibn Fadlan is welcomed into the clan. The leader of the group, Buliwyf (who can communicate in Latin) takes Fadlan under his wing.
Without warning, the chieftain is ordered to haul his warriors back to Scandinavia to save his people from the "monsters of the mist." Ibn Fadlan follows the clan and must rise to the occasion in the battle of his life.--Gina Kaysen [via]
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End-Gameby Michael Francis GilbertISBN 0060810351 (0-06-081035-1)
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Enemies Withinby Michael Z. LewinISBN 0060807121 (0-06-080712-1)
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Fear to Treadby Michael GilbertISBN 0060809566 (0-06-080956-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear to Tread'Book summary:Once you start to follow Mr. Wetherall, headmaster of a London high school, in his one-man war on crime and the black-market, you will find it hard to leave him until victory is his. [via]
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Flash Pointby Michael Francis GilbertISBN 0060808659 (0-06-080865-9)
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Four Classic Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteriesby Dorothy SayersISBN 0060810513 (0-06-081051-3)
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha TudorISBN 006440188X (0-06-440188-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0099079208 (0-09-907920-8)
Hardcover, Arrow Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create lifeand the monster that became his legacy.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
" A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
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" An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
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" Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
" A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the readers experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the worlds finest books to their full potential.
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Guards! Guards!by Terry PratchettISBN 0061020648 (0-06-102064-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guards! Guards!'Book summary:Welcome to Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in Terry Pratchetts legendary Discworld series.
Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all...). How did it get there? How is the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night involved? Can the Ankh-Morpork City Watch restore order and the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork to power?
Magic, mayhem, and a marauding dragon...who could ask for anything more?
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The Heart-Shaped Box: A Claire Montrose Mysteryby April HenryISBN 0061030813 (0-06-103081-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Heartstoneby Phillip MargolinISBN 006073969X (0-06-073969-X)
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Ice Blues: A Donald Strachey Mysteryby Richard StevensonISBN 0140094032 (0-14-009403-2)
Softcover, Select Penguin
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The Iciest Sinby H.R.F. KeatingISBN 0091737451 (0-09-173745-1)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Just Enough Light to Killby A. E. MaxwellISBN 0061041114 (0-06-104111-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just Enough Light to Kill'Book summary:When an American customs agent who once saved his life dies a suspicious death on the U.S.-Mexico border, Fiddler heads south to investigate the death. Reprint. [via]
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The Killing Artby Jonathan SantloferISBN 0060541083 (0-06-054108-3)
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Lady Vanishesby Carol Lea BenjaminISBN 0060762349 (0-06-076234-9)
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Landscape With Dead Donsby Robert RobinsonISBN 014001831X (0-14-001831-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Leper's Returnby Michael JecksISBN 0060846585 (0-06-084658-5)
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Lily Whiteby Susan IsaacsISBN 0061093092 (0-06-109309-2)
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The Locked Roomby Paul AusterISBN 0140097368 (0-14-009736-8)
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The Magusby John FowlesISBN 0099743914 (0-09-974391-4)
Hardcover, Vintage
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magus'Book summary:A novel which explores the complexities of the human mind. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. Surreal threads weave ever tighter as reality and illusion intertwine in a bizarre psychological game. [via]
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The Man from the Seaby Michael InnesISBN 0060805919 (0-06-080591-9)
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The Margery Allingham Omnibusby Margery AllinghamISBN 0140060588 (0-14-006058-8)
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A Matter Of Honorby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0061007137 (0-06-100713-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Matter Of Honor'Book summary:A letter bequeathed by a disgraced British colonel to his only son, Adam, sets in motion a deadly chain of events involving the KGB, the CIA, and the terrible secret that Adam is carrying. Reprint. NYT. [via]
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Missing Womanby Michael Z. LewinISBN 0060807091 (0-06-080709-1)
Softcover, Perennial Library
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The Mysterious Westby Tony HillermanISBN 0061092622 (0-06-109262-2)
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Next: A Novelby Michael CrichtonISBN 0060873035 (0-06-087303-5)
Softcover, Harperluxe
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Next: A Novel'Book summary:Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease?
What's coming Next? Get a hint of what Michael Crichton sees on the horizon in this short video clip: high bandwidth or low bandwidthWe live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies.
We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes...
Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.
Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.
The future is closer than you think. [via]
Night of the Living Deb: A Debutante Dropout Mysteryby Susan McBrideISBN 0060845554 (0-06-084555-4)
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No Way Outby Kenneth FearingISBN 0060809221 (0-06-080922-1)
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The Norths Meet Murderby Richard Lockridge, Frances Louise Davis LockridgeISBN 006092490X (0-06-092490-X)
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The Nymphos of Rocky Flatsby Mario AcevedoISBN 0060833262 (0-06-083326-2)
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One Dead Under The Cuckoo's Nestby Lori AvocatoISBN 0060731672 (0-06-073167-2)
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The Organ Grindersby Bill FitzhughISBN 0060815264 (0-06-081526-4)
Softcover, Dark Alley
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The Penguin Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. Jamesby M. R. JamesISBN 0140090177 (0-14-009017-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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The Players and the Gameby Julian SymonsISBN 0140038086 (0-14-003808-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Private Woundby Nicholas BlakeISBN 0060805315 (0-06-080531-5)
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Puzzle for Fiendsby Patrick QuentinISBN 0140080821 (0-14-008082-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Queen Jadeby Yxta Maya MurrayISBN 0060582650 (0-06-058265-0)
Softcover, Rayo
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The Rat Began to Gnaw the Ropeby C. W. GraftonISBN 0060806397 (0-06-080639-7)
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Red, White and Blueby Susan IsaacsISBN 0061093106 (0-06-109310-6)
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Rosaura a Las Diezby DeneviISBN 0137832346 (0-13-783234-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Running from the Lawby Lisa ScottolineISBN 0061094110 (0-06-109411-0)
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Sacred Gamesby Vikram ChandraISBN 0061130354 (0-06-113035-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Games'Book summary:Sacred Games is a novel as big, ambitious, multi-layered, contradictory, funny, sad, scary, violent, tender, complex, and irresistible as India itself. Steep yourself in this story, enjoy the delicious masala Chandra has created, and you will have an idea of how the country manages to hang together despite age-old hatreds, hundreds of dialects, different religious practices, the caste system, and corruption everywhere. The Game keeps it afloat.
There are more than a half-dozen subplots to be enjoyed, but the main events take place between Inspector Sartaj Singh, a Sikh member of the Mumbai police force, and Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is no accident that Ganesh is named for the Hindu god of success, the elephant god much revered by Hindus everywhere. By the world's standards he has made a huge success of his life: he has everything he wants. But soon after the novel begins he is holed up in a bomb shelter from which there is no escape, and Sartaj is right outside the door. Ganesh and Sartaj trade barbs, discuss the meaning of good and evil, hold desultory conversations alternating with heated exchanges, and, finally, Singh bulldozes the building to the ground. He finds Ganesh dead of a gunshot wound, and an unknown woman dead in the bunker along with him.
How did it come to this? Of course, Singh has wanted to capture this prize for years, but why now and why in this way? The chapters that follow tell both their stories, but especially chronicle Gaitonde's rise to power. He is a clever devil, to be sure, and his tales are as captivating as those of Scheherezade. Like her he spins them out one by one and often saves part of the story for the reader--or Sartaj--to figure out. He is involved in every racket in India, corrupt to the core, but even he is afraid of Swami Shridlar Shukla, his Hindu guru and adviser. In the story Gaitonde shares with Singh and countless other characters, Vikram Chandra has written a fabulous tale of treachery, a thriller, and a tour of the mean streets of India, complete with street slang. --Valerie Ryan
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After writing his first two, critically acclaimed books, Red Earth and Pouring Rain and Love and Longing in Bombay, Vikram Chandra set off on what became, seven years later, an epic story of crime and punishment in modern Mumbai, Sacred Games. Chandra splits his time between Berkeley, where he teaches at the University of California, and Mumbai, the vast city that becomes a character in its own right in Sacred Games. We asked him a few questions about his new book. Amazon.com: Did you imagine your book would become such an epic when you began it?
Vikram Chandra: No, not at all. When I began, I imagined a conventional crime story which began with a dead body or two, proceeded along a linear path, and ended 300 pages later with a neatly-wrapped solution. But when I began to actually investigate the particular kind of crime that I was interested in, a series of connections revealed themselves. Organized crime is of course connected to politics, both local and national, but if you're interested in political activity in India today--and elsewhere in the world--you are of course going to have to address the role of religion. These realms, in turn, intersect with the workings of the film and television industries. And all of this exists within the context of the "Great Game," the struggle between nation-states for power and dominance; some of the criminal organizations have mutually-beneficial relationships with intelligence agencies. So, I became really interested in this mesh of interlocking lives and organizations and historical forces. I began to trace how ordinary people were thrown about and forced to make choices by events and actors very far away; how disparate lives can cross each other--sometimes unknowingly--and change profoundly as a result. The form of the novel grew from this thematic interest, in an attempt to form a representation of this intricate web. The reader will, I hope, by the end of the novel see how the connections fall together and weave through each other. The individual characters, of course, see only a fragmented, partial version of this whole.
Amazon.com: You interviewed many gangsters, high and low, to research your story. How did you get introductions to them? What did they think of someone writing their life?
Chandra: When I was writing my last book, Love and Longing in Bombay (in which Sartaj Singh first appears), I had contacted some police officers and crime journalists. I stayed in touch with a few of them, and when I began to think seriously about this project I asked them to introduce me to anyone who could tell me something about organized crime. Amongst the people I met in this way were some people from the "underworld," which turns out not to be an underworld at all. It's the same world we live in, inhabited by human beings who are very much like the rest of us, even in their distinctiveness. For the most part, they were as curious about me and what I was doing as I was about them. They're not big novel readers, but they had very certain opinions about representations of their lives they had seen on the big screen: "Such-and-such film got it all wrong"--they would tell me--"don't do that." And, "This was correct, that was not." So I listened, and I hope I got it mostly right.
Amazon.com: For most American readers--like me--your story is full of slang and cultural references that we can't hope to follow. For me that's part of the charm--I feel like I'm immersed in a world I don't fully understand. Were you thinking of a particular audience as you wrote?
Chandra: I wanted to use the English that we actually speak in India, the language that I would use to tell this story if I were sitting in a bar in Mumbai talking to a friend. This English would be sprinkled with words from many Indian languages, and we would share a universe of cultural referents and facts that a reader from another country wouldn't recognize instantly. This, of course, is an experience that all of us have in a very various world. I remember reading British children's stories as a kid, and having long discussions with friends about what "crumpets" and "clotted cream" could possibly be. An Indian reader reading a novel about Arizona by an American writer might have no idea what a "pueblo" was, or why you went to a "Circle-K" to get a bottle of milk. But the context tells you something about what is being referred to, and there is a distinct delight in discovering a new world and figuring out its nuances. This is one of the great gifts of reading, that it can transport you into foreign landscapes. It's one of the reasons I read books from other cultures and places, and I hope American readers will share in this pleasure.
Amazon.com: Your book has dozens of characters who could live in books of their own. Aside from your two main figures, the policeman Sartaj Singh and the criminal Ganesh Gaitone, which was your favorite character to write?
Chandra: That would have to be Sartaj's mother, Prabhjot Kaur, as a young girl in pre-Partition India, I think. She's curious, innocent, and passionate; writing that chapter was hard and exhilarating.
Amazon.com: The movies of Bollywood (and Hollywood) are everywhere in your story, and many in your family (and you yourself) have been screenwriters and directors. For someone new to Indian film, what are some of your favorites you'd recommend?
Chandra: A very small sampling from the '50s onwards might be: Pyaasa (Thirst, 1957); Kaagaz ke Phool ("Paper Flowers," 1959); Mughal-e-Azam ("The Great Mughal," 1960); Sholay ("Embers," 1975); Parinda ("Bird," 1989); Satya (1998); Lagaan ("Land Tax," 2001); Lage Raho Munnabha ("Keep at it, Munnabhai," 2006).
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