Six Suspects
by Vikas Swarup
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Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN-10: 0-312-63073-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-63073-7
Publication Date: August 2010
List Price: $14.99
Synopsis (from the publisher): Seven years ago, Vivek “Vicky” Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered bartender Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi, simply because she refused to serve him a drink.
Now Vicky Rai has been killed at the party he was throwing to celebrate his acquittal. The police recover six guests with guns in their possession: a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Gandhi overnight; an American tourist infatuated with an Indian actress; a stone-age tribesman on a quest to recover a sacred stone; a Bollywood sex-symbol with a guilty secret; a mobile-phone thief who dreams big; and an ambitious politician prepared to stoop low.