# City of Destruction

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- Book: [City of Destruction](https://www.bookquiver.com/vaseem-khan/city-of-destruction) ([City of Destruction.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vaseem-khan/city-of-destruction.md))
- Authors: [Vaseem Khan](https://www.bookquiver.com/vaseem-khan)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-13-9970-767-1
- Published: 2024-11-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Vaseem Khan writes with charm and wit, and an eye for detail that transports the reader entirely. I couldn't love this series more' CHRIS WHITAKER 'Historical fiction at its finest' MAIL ON SUNDAY From the award-winning author of MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSE and THE LOST MAN OF BOMBAY comes a brilliant new mystery featuring the inimitable Persis Wadia. Bombay, 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective, Persis Wadia, kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate the divisive new defence minister, a man calling for war with India's new post-Independence neighbours. With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down the assassin's co-conspirators - aided by agents from Britain's MI6 security service - Persis is quickly relegated to the sidelines. But then she is given a second case, the burned body of an unidentified white man found on a Bombay beach. As she pursues both investigations - with and without official sanction - she soon finds herself headed to the country's capital, New Delhi, a city where ancient and modern India openly clash. Meanwhile, Persis's colleague, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life as all around him the country tears itself apart in the prelude to war...