Corby, Gary

Sacred games / Gary Corby. - New York : Soho Press Inc. , 2013 - 350 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sacred Games combines the ambition of a 19th-century social novel with a cops-and-Bhais detective thriller. (Bhai is a Hindi slang term for gangster.) As sprawling as the heat-drenched city it richly portrays, Sacred Games delves into many emotionally charged worlds of contemporary India, in particular the spidery links between organized crime, local politics and Indian espionage that lie below the shimmering surfaces of its economic renaissance. Money and corruption form the golden thread. In interweaving narratives and voices, Sacred Games takes on even larger themes, from the wrenching violence of the 1947 partition of India to the specter of nuclear terrorism.


English.

9781616952273


Diotima (Lengendary character) ----Fiction


Nicolaos (Fictitious character) ----Fiction
Private investigators ----Fiction
Olympic Games (Ancient)----Fiction
Pancratium ----Fiction
Murder---Investigations----Fiction


Athens (Greece)----Fiction
Greece---History---Athenian supremacy, 479 - 431 B.C. ----Fiction


Mystery fiction
Historical fiction

PR9619.4.C665 / S23 2013

MYS COR