A Case of Exploding Mangoes

In August 1988, Zia gets into the presidential plane, Pak One, which explodesmidway. Who killed him? The army generals growing old waiting for their promotions, the CIA,the ISI, RAW or Ali Shigri, a junior officer at the military academy whose father, a whisky-swillingjihadi colonel, was murdered by the army?A Case of Exploding Mangoes is sharp, black, inventive and utterly gripping. It marks the debut ofa brilliant new writer.