{"product_id":"9781612191621","title":"The Story of My Assassins","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Spine chilling … written with flair and clear-eyed acidity.” \u003cbr\u003e— \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on actual events, \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Assassins\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. Landing like a bombshell on his comfortable life, just as he’s started a steamy affair with a brilliant woman, the news prompts him to launch an urgent investigation into the lives of his aspiring murderers—a ragtag group of street thugs and village waifs—and their mastermind. Who wanted him dead, and why?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut the investigation forces him to reexamine his own life, too—to confront his own notion of himself, his job, and his treatment of the women in his life, as well as his own complex feelings about the country that crafted his would-be killers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart thriller and part erotic romance, full of dark humor and knife-edged suspense, The Story of My Assassins is a piercing literary novel that takes us from the lavish, hedonistic palaces of India’s elite to its seediest slums. It is a novel of corruption, passion, power, and ambition; of extreme poverty and obscene wealth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt is an awesome adventure into the heart of today’s India.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053425311984,"sku":"9781612191621","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612191621_p0.jpg?v=1763847410","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612191621","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}