"He's surrounded by corruption of all sorts" and asks himself the daily question: "How do you maintain yourself in this world?" Recently divorced police inspector Sartaj Singhis is a man "trying to keep afloat the best way he knows how," Chandra says of one of his main characters. Add in the world's largest film industry, Bollywood, a shady guru and the ever-present tension between India and Pakistan, and you have a full-blown literary potboiler. Sacred Games follows a world-weary cop and a larger-than-life crime boss. ![]() ![]() Weighing in at 900 pages, the novel is Dickensian in scope, and part Godfather as well. To enter the world of author Vikram Chandra's new book, Sacred Games, is to be immersed in the crime and corruption of India's financial and movie capital, Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay.
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