Vendor
	Fletcher Agency Melissa Chinchillo
Original language
English

THE CASE OF LOVE COMMANDOS

When India’s Love Commandos rescue a young woman from a high caste family whose been forbidden from marrying an untouchable, she looks set to live happily ever after. But just hours before the wedding, her boyfriend, Ram, is abducted. Has his would-be father-in-law made good on his promise and done away with him?

It falls to Vish Puri to find out. Unfortunately, he’s not having a good month. He can’t locate a haul of stolen jewelry. He’s been pickpocketed. And the only person who can get his wallet back is his interfering Mummy-ji. Things only get worse when he discovers that his archrival, Hari Kumar, is also trying to locate the abducted boy – as is a genetics research institute exploiting illiterate villagers. To find Ram first, Puri and his team must travel into the badlands of rural India where the local politics are shaped by millennia-old caste prejudices.

Tarquin Hall is a British author and journalist who has lived and worked throughout South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. His previous books the acclaimed Salaam Brick Lane, an account of a year he spent living above an East End sweatshop, and To the Elephant Graveyard. He is married to the Indian-born journalist Anu Anand and lives in London and New Dehli.