Guldaar

by Stephen Alter

English 352 pages 1 edition

NOW IN A NEW AND EXCITING LOOK ‘[Alter’s] a confident plotter who knows how to keep things zipping along and dial up tension.’— Kirkus Reviews ‘Afridi is [a] real hero—wise, decisive, loyal, hard as nails, but with his heart in the right place… I’d love to read another Afridi adventure and so I suspect, would most readers.’— The Hindu A shadowy warlord known only as Guldaar has built an empire based on drug-running, arms-dealing and cold-blooded murder across South Asia. A deadly puppet-master, he plays tribal factions and sovereign nations off each other and acts as a double agent for the CIA and ISI. Now, with his increasing influence across military and political circles, he’s threatening to destabilize the entire nuclear-armed region. With Guldaar’s imminent arrival in India to seal a major weapons deal, Colonel Imtiaz Afridi is presented with the perfect opportunity to finally nab the most dangerous man in the world. He enlists the help of Manav Shinde, associate director of RAW, special agent Anna Tagore and undercover agents from the NSA and ISI. Their sole aim is to capture Guldaar: dead or alive. Meanwhile, when an American journalist, Luke McKenzie, comes too close to the inner workings of Guldaar’s empire, he is kidnapped and traded to the warlord as a hostage. As Afridi closes in, Luke will become a critical bargaining chip in Guldaar’s ruthless battle for survival. Written in impeccable prose and displaying a deep knowledge of the natural and political landscape of South Asia, Guldaar: Warlord of the Hindu Kush is a heart-stopping tale of espionage.