# The Custom of the Country

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- Book: [The Custom of the Country](https://www.bookquiver.com/p-m-hubbard/the-custom-of-the-country) ([The Custom of the Country.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/p-m-hubbard/the-custom-of-the-country.md))
- Authors: [P. M. Hubbard](https://www.bookquiver.com/p-m-hubbard)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- ISBN: 978-14-7190-063-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2013-02-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

By the time Jim Gilruth returns to Pakistan, twenty years after he served as a law officer in a small village near Lahore, colonial rule has given way to Pakistani officialdom. His strange and enigmatic mission is painfully involved in the brutal clash of the old and the new - but why has he been chosen as the instrument of coercion. Then the details of a half-forgotten murder that he had long ago adjudicated begin to come back in all their bewildering nuances, and Gilruth, in an eerie repetition of the circumstances of a generation ago, is powerless to save the life of a good man, or bring a murderer to justice.