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The Khan
The Khan
The Khan
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The Khan

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A Times UK Bestseller
A Times & Sunday Times UK Best Crime Books of 2021
A Waterstones Best Crime & Thriller of 2021

Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men.

Jia Khan has always lived like this.

Successful London lawyer Jia Khan is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father, Akbar Khan, led the Pakistani community and ran the local organized crime syndicate. Often his Jirga rule – the old way – was violent and bloody, but it was always justice of a kind.

Now, with her father murdered, Jia must return to take his place. The police have always relied on the Khan to maintain the fragile order of the streets. But a bloody power struggle has broken out among warring communities and nobody is safe.

Justice needs to be restored, and Jia is about to discover that justice always comes at a cost.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAgora Books
Release dateAug 1, 2023
ISBN9781957957302
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Saima Mir

Saima Mir has written for The Times, Guardian and Independent. Her essay for It's Not About The Burqa (Picador) appeared in Guardian Weekend and received over 250,000 hits online in two days. She has also contributed to the anthology The Best, Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood. Saima grew up in Bradford and now lives in London.

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    Despite a promising start, a truly intriguing heroine (or perhaps anti-heroine), a interesting and evocative setting and dynamic, this feels uneven, and in places, rushed. It’s a shame, as it literally had the ability to carve out a spectacular new niche in crime fiction and be a vanguard for many imitators but it seems to have a less than even narrative, with variable engagement as a result.

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