The Minister's Wife

Author: Amaresh Misra
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 193
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143028162

Description

A hard-boiled fast-paced narrative about sexual and political corruption in contemporary India. An erotic thriller set against the backdrop of caste conflicts, mafia intrigue and the amorality of a world driven purely by ambition and wealth. A racy and rewarding read.

Ajit Vajpayee is a drifter. A confused Marxist and a voyeur, his is a life of little action and desperate thoughts - about political ideology, violence and sex.

One empty afternoon in Lucknow, a mysterious man who knows his darkest secrets and shares his disillusionment with women offers him an opportunity for adventure: he may spy on a minister's wife, a woman, he is told, with a genius for deception. The unlikely mission takes Ajit to Bombay and Bihar, and he finds himself hopelessly caught up in a murky world of low politics, high crime and twisted carnality.

An erotic thriller set against the backdrop of caste conflicts, mafia intrigue and the amorality of a world driven purely by ambition and wealth. The Minister's Wife is a racy and rewarding read.

Contents

Prologue

The Man
Kanpur, 4 October 1990
A question of Paradise
Allahabad, 3 September 1992
Mumbai
The Lover
Bihar
Benaras, 26 January 1993
The
Return
An Affair to Remember
Surprise
A Way
Too Long
You Trusted Me
The Minister's Wife
Dhursal

Epilogue