Combo of HEADLEY AND I by Zaidi S. Hussain and Byculla to Bangkok by Zaidi Hussain (Set of 2 Books)

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.For most of his childhood Rahul Bhatt did not know a father's unconditional love a vacuum that David Coleman Headley filled for a while. David Headley -- the dashing intriguing Pakistani with one brown eye and a green one a man who could pass himself off as American quite easily a charmer of men and women alike -- lured his way into Rahul's world and in no time swept him off his feet. It is only when ten men made a mockery of Mumbai in a well-planned act of terrorism that Rahul realized how close he had come to being a part of the careful plotting and the innumerable recces that Headley carried out. This is a complex tale of human relationships and the deceit therein. It is the story of Rahul Bhatt an aspiring Bollywood actor and his encounter with David Coleman Headley the man responsible for a ruthlessly executed carnage in which 166 people were killed and over 300 injured over fifty-nine hours that brought Mumbai to its knees and shook the entire nation. Tracing the months leading up to the horrors of 26/11 and the long months of interrogation that followed Headley and I will leave your heart racing long after you've put it down.The high-stakes game of the underworld has new faces working for and against Dawood Ibrahim - the shadowy manipulative figure that pulls the strings. Dawood's own deputy turned arch-rival Chhota Rajan thug-turned-politician Arun Gawli Amar (Raavan) Naik and his engineer brother Ashwin Naik and a host of other characters big and small walk the pages of this compelling history of the Maharashtrian mobsters who were once dubbed 'amchi muley' 'our boys' by Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray. Equally fascinating are the stories of the famous - and infamous - policemen and 'encounter specialists' who took the gangs on with great success and not too many scruples. Violence and deceit one expects to read of but the strength of this book is also its ability to capture the mundane - almost naive - beginnings of what very quickly became the organized crime and brutal vendettas that held Mumbai to ransom through the last decades of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched and thrillingly told by the acknowledged expert on the underworld this is faster-paced than Dongri to Dubai and even more chilling in its implications for India and the subcontinent.