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The Story of My Assassins

By: Tarun J Tejpal

Fiction Indian Fiction
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Based on actual events,?The Story of My Assassins?tells the story of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. Landing like a bombshell on his comfortable life, just as hes started a steamy affair with a brilliant woman, the news prompts him to launch an urgent investigation into the lives of his aspiring murderersa ragtag group of street thugs and village waifsand their mastermind. Who wanted him dead, and why?

But the investigation forces him ...to reexamine his own life, tooto confront his own notion of himself, his job, and his treatment of the women in his life, as well as his own complex feelings about the country that crafted his would-be killers.

Part thriller and part erotic romance, full of dark humor and knife-edged suspense,?The Story of My Assassins?is a piercing literary novel that takes us from the lavish, hedonistic palaces of Indias elite to its seediest slums. It is a novel of corruption, passion, power, and ambition; of extreme poverty and obscene wealth.

It is an awesome adventure into the heart of todays India.

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