The Lion's Share

""I knew I was dancing with the devil. But the music was too good to stop.""

Arjan Singh Kanwar had perfected the art of becoming someone else. The General's son from Chandigarh went to Harvard, cut his hair, married into a Mayflower family, and rose through a storied Wall Street firm to a life on Park Avenue.

Then came a photograph he couldn't explain, a trade he shouldn't have made, and a wire transfer with an extra zero. When the FBI arrived at dawn, Arjan did what immigrants do-he moved.

Now Arjan sits in Tihar Jail, where his unlikely companion is Javed Ali Khan, a hawala king who rigs cricket matches. Over a game of chess, Arjan tells Javed his story: the rise and the fraud, the wife and the mistress, the children he left behind, the parents he failed.

The Lion's Share is a sly, blackly funny confession by a man who thought he had escaped-but then ran into himself.