![]() He mounts an elaborate plot for revenge with an ever-changing crew (willing and not) that includes his silk-underwear-and- cologne-wearing roommate a hash-smoking American lieutenant with questionable motives the chief of Pakistans secret police, who mistakenly believes hes in cahoots with the CIA a blind woman imprisoned for fornication Uncle Starchy, the squadrons laundryman and, not least of all, a mango-besotted crow. But Ali remains patient, determined, a touch world-weary (You want freedom and they give you chicken korma), and unsurprised at finding Zia at every turn. What he quickly discovers is a snarl of events: Americans in Pakistan, Soviets in Afghanistan, dollars in every hand. Ali is determined to understand what or who pushed his father to such desperationand to avenge his death. His father, one of Zias colonels, committed suicide under suspicious circumstances. ![]() A first novel of the first orderprovocative, exuberant, wickedly cleverthat reimagines the conspiracies and coincidences leading to the mysterious 1988 plane crash that killed Pakistans dictator General Zia ul-Haq.Īt the center is Ali Shigri: Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of Fury Squadron.
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