Seven years ago Vivek Vicky Rai the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh murdered Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. The police search each and every guest. Six of them are discovered with guns in their possession and are taken in for questioning. In this elaborate murder mystery we join Arun Advani Indias best-known investigative journalist as the lives of these six suspects unravel before our eyes: a corrupt bureaucrat; an American tourist; a stone-age tribesman; a Bollywood sex symbol; a mobile phone thief; and an ambitious politician. Each is equally likely to have pulled the trigger. Both a page turner and a richly textured tale of human frailties and emotions Vikas Swarups eagerly awaited second offering is astutely plotted with a panoramic imaginative sweep.