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The last thing Danny wants to see published is his obituaryThe year is 1975. Danny Jacobs is an ambitious, young American journalist who’s just arrived in Bombay for a new assignment. He’s soon caught up in the chaos of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s domestic “Emergency.”Willy Smets is Danny’s enigmatic expat neighbor. He’s a charming man, but with suspicious connections. As a monsoon drenches Bombay, Danny falls hard for Sushmita, Smets’s beguiling and clever lover-and the infatuation is mutual.”The Emergency,” a virtual coup by the prime minister, is only the first twist in the high-stakes drama of Danny’s new life in India. The assassination of a police officer by a Marxist extremist, as well as Danny’s obsession with the inscrutable Sushmita, conspire to put his career-and life-in jeopardy. And, of course, the temptations of Willy Smets’s seductive personality sit squarely at the heart of the matter.Democracy is fragile and the lines of loyalty and betrayal often cross and cannot be untangled.
