"Combining a fierce political imagination with a tender solicitude for the losers of history, it sets a new and formidably high standard in Indian writing in English." --Pankaj MishraA sweeping saga of corruption and social injustice in modern India, inspired by an infamous real-life sting operationOne of the most explosive books to ever come out of India, The Story of My Assassins is gripping from its first sentence: "The morning I learnt I'd been shot I was sitting in my office on the second floor looking out the big glass window at the yellow ringlets of a laburnum tree..."The story of a celebrated journalist learning that the police have captured five killers on their way to his office continues on to an absorbing saga that causes the journalist to reexamine his own life, while compulsively investigating the lives of his would-be killers.The result is an absorbing saga that takes us from the cream of Delhi's smart set, from lavish and hedonistic parties in marble-decked homes, to seedy, slummy Uttar Pradesh, home to the five men and boys held responsible for the intrigue. "They are no more victims than any of us -- trapped in the lives we have been given." And as the protagonist realizes it's true, he also realizes that none of these characters, ranging from village waifs and strays to dangerous thugs, could have masterminded the plot. So who wanted him dead?Tejpal writes compassionately but without romanticism to tell the gritty inside story of modern India. e-book ISBN 978-1-61219-163-8
