LondonstaniLondonstani, Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut, reveals a Britain that has never before been explored in the novel: a country of young Asians and white boys (desis and goras) trying to work out a place for themselves in the shadow of the divergent cultures of their parents generation. Set close to the Heathrow feed roads of Hounslow, Malkani shows us the lives of a gang of four young men: Hardjit the ring leader, a Sikh, violent, determined his

No longer able to trust those who hired him (if ever he did)

selfish islander

a secretary

Lurching from crisis to crisis

newly back in London

Then the whales attack a man ship

day-to-day life must go on

As a therapist

Leading a counter-attack

When Tenebrae is murdered

anybody in the know immediately becomes a target to be silenced

For Captain Stryker