Bestselling
author Omar Shahid Hamid's third and most chilling novel yet
About the
book
A burnt out New
York cop; an eighty-year-old Parsi sitting in a decaying Karachi mansion; a
hitman whose days are numbered; a journalist who dreams of the big time.
When a Jewish
woman is killed on the steps of the Natural History Museum in New York,
disparate lives are thrown together for one purpose: to bring about the
downfall of the Don, the uncrowned king of Karachi.
The Party
Worker explores the
Machiavellian politics of Pakistan's busiest city, where friends come bearing
bullets, and enemies can wait patiently for decades before striking.
Gritty,
disturbing, and compelling, this is Omar Shahid Hamid at his best.
Praise for
Omar Shahid Hamid
‘I strongly suggest
that Western policy makers read The Prisoner before they next
call for a military “crackdown” on Islamist militancy in Pakistan’ New
York Review of Books
‘An exhilarating
crime novel … Hamid’s portrayal of the city, the police, and the byzantine political
play is nuanced and sophisticated’ NPR
‘A book that one
simply will not be able to put down’ Dawn
‘[A] gripping
crime thriller with a heart-wrenching denouement … a haunting human-interest
story’ The Hindu
‘No matter how
many books Omar Shahid Hamid writes, he will never fail to give you an ending
you never, in your wildest dreams, expected’ Deccan Chronicle
‘A racy
page-turner, a rollicking ride – but with dark undertones … Hamid has
established his status as the first Pakistani crime writer writing in
English’ Friday Times
About the
author
Omar Shahid Hamid
has been a police officer in Pakistan for sixteen years and is a senior member
of the Karachi Police's Counter Terrorism Department. In 2011, following an
attack on his offices by the Pakistani Taliban, he took a five-year sabbatical
to write books and worked as a political risk consultant. He has been widely
quoted and regularly featured in major news outlets like The New York
Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The
Times, Le Monde, DW, Bloomberg, Reuters,
CNN, BBC and NPR. His first novel, The Prisoner (2013), was
longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015 and is now being
adapted for a feature film. His second novel is The Spinner’s Tale (2015).
In 2016, Omar returned to active duty as a Counter Terrorism Officer.
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