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The Warehouse
S.S.
Mausoof
The Warehouse rules throughout war-torn Waziristan barely pausing for breath.
Wallander meets the Reluctant Fundamentalist in THE WAREHOUSE. Cash an insurance investigator based in Karachi is asked to go to Waziristan to survey the damage caused by a burnt out warehouse and the recipient of an insurance claim that has remained open for years. He is persuaded to go on this dangerous journey by old flame – Sonia. On his trip he encounters corrupt police, the power struggle between the Pakistani army, and eventually the TALIBAN who kidnap him.
Overview
The Warehouse rules throughout war-torn Waziristan barely pausing for breath.
Wallander meets the Reluctant Fundamentalist in THE WAREHOUSE. Cash an insurance investigator based in Karachi is asked to go to Waziristan to survey the damage caused by a burnt out warehouse and the recipient of an insurance claim that has remained open for years. He is persuaded to go on this dangerous journey by old flame – Sonia. On his trip he encounters corrupt police, the power struggle between the Pakistani army, and eventually the TALIBAN who kidnap him.
S. S. Masusoof
S.S. Mausoof
grew up in Karachi and currently lives in San Francisco. He has written several screenplays and has multiple IMDB credits, including an award-winning thriller shot in Karachi called Kala Pul – The Black Bridge.
His short stories have been published in several periodicals.
Reviews
This idiosyncratic and individual thriller writing from a novelist and filmmaker whose knowledge of and experience in the region he describes grant a fierce verisimilitude to the narrative. At a stroke,
The Warehouse identifies Mausoof as a writer to be watched with close attention
Barry Forshaw, Financial Times
The Warehouse has all the black arts of a regular thriller in a setting you only hear of in disturbing late-night new programmes... this is Philip Marlow stuff with a frighteningly real-life AK47-toting edge, and you'll want to follow Cash, but from a safe distance
Jon Wise, Sunday Sport
Jon Wise, Sunday Sport
'[The Warehouse] is an illustration of the width of the 'crime fiction' genre… a Swiftian exploration of the madness of war... [S.S. Mausoof] pulls no punches in depicting human cruelty both personal and institutional'
Chris Roberts, Crime Review
This is a novel of action and adventure, with its questions and its twists and turns. An intrigue under the sign of death, where the hero is confronted with multiple dangers
Clause Le Nocher, Action-Suspense
Clause Le Nocher, Action-Suspense
Karachi insurance surveyor Syed Qais Ali Qureshi, or "Cash" to his friends and enemies, manages to remain wisecrackingly jaunty as a dubious mission to investigate a warehouse fire in Taliban-controlled Waziristan goes all kinds of wrong. First in a new series that puts an endearingly Chandleresque hero in a location that's been a byword for treachery since the Great Game
Karen Robinson, Sunday Times Crime Club
Karen Robinson, Sunday Times Crime Club
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