The Story of My Assassins

by Tarun J. Tejpal

English 464 pages 1 edition

The story of a man, his would-be assassins—and the country that made them all. Loosely inspired by an actual event, The Story of My Assassins tells the saga of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. The news lands like a bombshell on his already chaotic professional and personal life, and triggers his lover, Sara, a fiery and brilliant activist, to launch an urgent investigation into the lives of the ostensible murderers: a ragtag group of thugs and waifs—and their mastermind. Who wants him dead, and why? In no time, Sara and the journalist find themselves trapped in a hall of mirrors, amid a kaleidoscopic cast of characters that include policemen, crooks, village elders, journalists, venture capitalists, businessmen, lawyers, street children, politicians, whores, and godmen. Nothing is what it seems. No one is who they appear to be. Part thriller, part erotic romance, and in the main a civilizational autopsy, full of dark humour and knife-edge suspense, The Story of My Assassins is a sprawling epic that animates and anatomizes the multiple fault-lines of India. It is a novel of corruption, passion, power, and ambition: a gripping adventure, a revolving beam of light, into the ever-mysterious heart of India.