Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous Condition:Well Read off the west coast of

off the west coast of Scotland

and the predator who may have taken her

Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe

A Sunday Times bestsellerLonglisted for the Guardian first book awardA Radio 4 Book of the WeekThis book is about learning to live

the other infinite

Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous Condition:Well Read off the west coast ofOn the day that Hindu nationalists have won a spectacular election victory, a building collapses in Mumbai. The rescue operation finds a single survivor in the debris. The only person able to reach him is Akhila Iyer, a medical student who is also a notorious social media prankster. She finds him mumbling in delirium that two people are on their way to carry out a terror attack. Elsewhere, a young intelligence agent, Mukundan, is assigned to shadow