The first is Khader Khan, a mafia figurehead, criminal philosopher, and saint who served as Lin’s tutor in the Golden City’s criminal underworld. Two people possess the keys that can free Lin from the secrets and intrigues that have bound her. He discovers war, torture in detention, murder, and a string of sinister betrayals as a result of his search. He runs a clinic in one of the city’s most impoverished slums while learning the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. Lin is a guy on the run who has no family, home, or identification.
The two enter Bombay’s secret society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and performers, Indians and exiles from other nations, who look for what they cannot find elsewhere in this amazing location, accompanied by his guide and devoted buddy Prabaker. Lin, an ex-convict with a fake passport who escapes from an Australian maximum security prison in search of a city’s bustling streets where he may vanish, tells the story of Shantaram.
This is how the enormous, captivating first book, which is set in the underground of modern Bombay, begins.
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