Mister Jinnah Mysteries 2-Book Bundle
Mister Jinnah Mysteries 2-Book Bundle

Author: Donald J. Hauka

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2013-06-13

Total Pages: 745

ISBN-13: 1459722167

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This double edition of the Mister Jinnah Mysteries series presents Donald J. Hauka’s Mister Jinnah Securities and She Demons. Hakeem Jinnah is a politically incorrect but relentless crime reporter for the Vancouver Tribune who finds himself embroiled in an increasingly bizarre series of police investigations. Fast-paced, funny, and suspenseful, the Mister Jinnah series feature the larger-than-life crime reporter, flirtatious and always resourceful. Jinnah has to use every ounce of his investigative genius to solve a crime and make a few extra dollars on the side. "... one of this year’s funniest debuts" - The Calgary Herald "Mr. Jinnah’s first outing, in Mr. Jinnah: Securities, was adapted for television. She Demons should set him up for a series."- The Globe & Mail

Mister Jinnah Mysteries 3-Book Bundle
Mister Jinnah Mysteries 3-Book Bundle

Author: Donald J. Hauka

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 913

ISBN-13: 1459732618

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Fast-paced, funny, and suspenseful, the Mister Jinnah series feature the larger-than-life Vancouver Tribune crime reporter Hakeem Jinnah. Politically incorrect but relentless, Jinnah finds himself embroiled in an increasingly bizarre series of police investigations. Jinnah has to use every ounce of his investigative genius to solve a crime and make a few extra dollars on the side. Includes: Mister Jinnah: Securities – Mister Jinnah #1 Hakeem Jinnah enjoys an ordinary life of working the Vancouver Tribune’s crime beat, flirting with women, seeking interested investors in a mail-order-bride scheme, and driving around in his sattelite-guided Love Machine. But when he and another Tribune reporter begin competing to cover the story of a shady stock promoter’s death, he finds himself embroiled in a murder investigation. She Demons – Mister Jinnah #2 How can an enterprising newspaper reporter sell his Babji dolls when there’s a beheaded street youth, a Rave Messiah battling a berserk God Squad, and a conniving new editor to deal with? Especially when hes suffering all the symptoms of dengue fever? Hakeem Jinnah, the chain-smoking, headline-chasing hypochondriac, is in a race to find a killer and help save his buddy Sergeant Graham’s career. But a bevy of She Demons bedevil him at each turn. Soon Jinnah is entangled in a cultic web that threatens his friends, his family, and his life. Pizza 911 – Mister Jinnah #3 Mister Jinnah returns — just in time to skip town, forever! Pizza 911 puts the offbeat, chain-smoking Jinnah on the hunt for a vicious killer, and for one last big scoop before he gets out of the reporting game. From Vancouver to Tanzania, the neurotic newsman weaves between drug lords and assassins, betrayals and buried secrets.

The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

Author: Declan Walsh

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0393249921

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Winner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis—a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink—a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh’s abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan’s powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country.

The Nine Lives of Pakistan
The Nine Lives of Pakistan

Author: Declan Walsh

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-07-22

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1408868490

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'All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read this book' - Pankaj MishraThe demise of Pakistan - a country with a reputation for volatility, brutality and radical Islam - is regularly predicted. But things rarely turn out as expected, as renowned journalist Declan Walsh knows well. Over a decade covering the country, his travels took him from the raucous port of Karachi to the gilded salons of Lahore to the lawless frontier of Waziristan, encountering Pakistanis whose lives offer a compelling portrait of this land of contradictions. He meets a crusading lawyer who risks her life to fight for society's most marginalised, taking on everyone including the powerful military establishment; an imperious chieftain spouting poetry at his desert fort; a roguish politician waging a mini-war against the Taliban; and a charismatic business tycoon who moves into politics and seems to be riding high - till he takes up the wrong cause. Lastly, Walsh meets a spy whose orders once involved following him, and who might finally be able to answer the question that haunts him: why the Pakistanis suddenly expelled him from their country. Intimate and complex, unravelling the many mysteries of state and religion, this formidable book offers an arresting account of life in a country that, often as not, seems to be at war with itself.'Thrilling, big-hearted' - Memphis Barker, Daily Telegraph'Sets a new benchmark for non-fiction about the complex palace of mirrors that is Pakistan' - William Dalrymple

Mr and Mrs Jinnah
Mr and Mrs Jinnah

Author: Sheela Reddy

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2017-02-10

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 0143439669

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Mohammad Ali Jinnah was forty years old, a successful barrister and a rising star in the nationalist movement when he fell in love with pretty, vivacious Ruttie Petit, the daughter of his good friend, the fabulously rich Parsi baronet, Sir Dinshaw Petit. But Ruttie was just sixteen and her outraged father forbade the match. However, when she turned eighteen, they married. Bombay society was scandalized, and Ruttie and Jinnah were ostracized. It was an unlikely union that few thought would last. But Jinnah, in his undemonstrative, reserved way, was unmistakably devoted to his beautiful, wayward child-bride. And Ruttie, on her part, worshipped him, and could tease and cajole the famously unbending Jinnah. But as tumultuous political events increasingly absorbed him, Ruttie felt isolated and alone, cut off from her family, friends and community. She died at twenty-nine, leaving behind her daughter, Dina, and her inconsolable husband, who never married again. Sheela Reddy uses never-before-seen personal letters of Ruttie and her close friends as well as accounts left by contemporaries and friends to portray this marriage that convulsed Indian society. A product of intensive and meticulous research in Delhi, Bombay and Karachi, this is a must-read for all those interested in politics, history, and the power of an unforgettable love story.