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Six Suspects - Vikas Swarup

Description: ISBN 0552772518 / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Author: Vikas Swarup / Paperback / 386 Pages / Book is published 2009-02-26 by Black Swan

Newest Review: ... and lazy woman who's heading for the age at which the romantic leads start drying up and get replaced with so-called ... more

... 'character' roles. When she receives a letter from a girl who appears to be her 'double' it's so tempting to train up her doppelganger to do all the dull and boring work that she can't be bothered to do herself. You just know it's going to all go horribly wrong. The so-called Tribal is Jiba Korwa, a little jet-black man from the Andaman Islands, who fulfils the role of the book's 'noble savage'. He's the contrast to the other less honourable suspects. He's been roped in by an anthropologist to try to steal back a precious...more

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Six Suspects - Vikas Swarup: Who Killed the Scumbag Millionaire? Who Cares? (1557 words)
by - written on 14/05/09 (Very useful, 97 readings)
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If you've heard of the film Slumbag Millionaire perhaps you know that it was based on a novel called Q&A. That was Vikas Swarup's first novel and I absolutely adored it. When I learned that his second novel was now available in paperback, I wanted it so much that I paid the full whack on amazon; that's not something I do very often. ~ So what's it about?~ Vicky Rai is the son of an influential politician and is a thoroughly nasty piece of work. With his corrupt and violent playboy lifestyle he has left such a trail of havoc and destruction that his politician father has spent a fortune bailing him out of trouble and buying off (or killing off) ... Read the complete review