The Spy

<p>Ajay Chowdhury is the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland crime fiction award. He is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director who was born in India and now lives in London where he builds digital businesses cooks experimental dishes for his wife and daughters and writes through the night. His children's book Ayesha and the Firefish was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical.<br><br><br>The Waiter published in 2021 is the first in his warm funny and spicy adult crime series about Kamil Rahman an ex-policeman from Calcutta who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It has been optioned for television by Moonage Pictures. Follow up The Cook was published in May 2022 to critical acclaim and deals with the issue of homelessness. The third book on the series - <i>The Detective</i> - is about government surveillance and will be published in April 2023.</p> <p><b>This is Detective Kamil Rahman's toughest assignment yet...</b><br><br>Kamil Rahman is working for the Metropolitan Police when he gets the call from MI5. They've received intelligence of a terrorist plot and it's Kamil they need. Posing as a disaffected cop and working once again in Anjoli's beloved restaurant Kamil infiltrates the cell. From London he is sent to Kashmir a place he visited with his parents when he was younger. But his allegiance becomes blurred when he finds himself face to face with an old nemesis...<br><br><b>For fans of Robert Galbraith Anthony Horowitz and Elly Griffiths <i>The Spy</i> is the compelling thought-provoking new mystery in the Detective Kamil Rahman series.</b></p> As funny and touching as it is well-plotted