The Khan
Vengeance - the sequel - out now!
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Publisher Description
‘Bold, addictive and brilliant.’ Stylist, best fiction 2021
A Times Bestseller
A Times & Sunday Times Best Crime Books of 2021
A Waterstones Thriller of The Month
Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men.
Jia Khan has always lived like this.
Successful London lawyer Jia Khan is a long way from the Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father, Akbar Khan, led the Pakistani community and ran the local organised crime syndicate.
Often his Jirga rule – the old way – was violent and bloody, but it was always justice of a kind.
Now, with her father murdered, Jia must return to take his place. Justice needs to be restored, and Jia is about to discover that justice always comes at a cost.
‘A fascinating glimpse into a world rarely portrayed in fiction.’ Guardian, best crime and thrillers
‘A once-in-a-generation crime thriller.’ A.A.Dhand, author of Streets of Darkness
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In The Khan, Saima Mir has delivered one of 2021’s most astonishing crime thrillers. And in its central protagonist, Jia Khan, one of the year’s most compellingly complex lead characters. Already optioned by the BBC—and with all the makings of the first novel in a must-read series—The Khan follows London lawyer Jia Khan as she returns home to Bradford after 15 years of estrangement from her family. Her father, Akbar Khan, is the revered, respected leader of the Pakistani community and the undisputed head of a local crime empire. When he is murdered, it falls to Jia, his eldest daughter, to take his place—and she soon becomes engrained in the very life she once tried to leave behind. This is a refreshing thriller about revenge, family ties, power, privilege and the expectations that are placed upon women. But The Khan is also a deft exploration of justice—and who is granted access to it. It heralds a bold and brilliant new voice in crime fiction.
