The Party Worker

Bestselling author Omar Shahid Hamids third and most chilling novel yet.A burnt out New York cop; an eighty-year-old Parsi sitting in a decaying Karachi mansion; a hit man whose days are numbered; a journalist who dreams of the big time.When a Jewish woman is killed on the steps of the Natural History Museum in New York, disparate lives are thrown together for one purpose: to bring about the downfall of the Don, the uncrowned king of Karachi.The Party Worker explores the Machiavellian politics of Pakistans busiest city, where friends come bearing bullets and enemies can wait patiently for decades before striking.Gritty, disturbing and compelling, this is Omar Shahid Hamid at his best.Praise for Omar Shahid HamidI strongly suggest that Western policy makers read The Prisoner before they next call for a military crackdown on Islamist militancy in Pakistan New York Review of BooksAn exhilarating crime novel Hamids portrayal of the city, the police and the byzantine political play is nuanced and sophisticated NPRA book that one simply will not be able to put down Dawn[A] gripping crime thriller with a heart-wrenching denouement a haunting human-interest story HinduNo matter how many books Omar Shahid Hamid writes, he will never fail to give you an ending you never, in your wildest dreams, expected Deccan ChronicleA racy page-turner, a rollicking ride - but with dark undertones Hamid has established his status as the first Pakistani crime writer writing in English Friday Times