by vjbooks | Jan 10, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Oct. 13) Nick Sunder, a disillusioned Boston lawyer, has been backpacking in Asia for more than a year when disaster strikes at the start of Mastras’s stirring first novel: the police in Peshawar, Pakistan, arrest him for cutting his...
by vjbooks | Jan 5, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Mystery Scene, M. Schlecht) Western backpackers and Islamic fundamentalists meet in this literary thriller set in the mountainous tribal areas of Pakistan. Nick Sunder is an American dropout from a successful law career. While in South Asia, he falls in with a...
by vjbooks | Dec 27, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
George Mastras has worked as a criminal investigator for the public defender service, a counselor at a juvenile correctional facility, and a litigator in New York and Los Angeles. After ten years of practicing law, he quit his job, sold his belongings, and spent...
by vjbooks | Dec 2, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Simonsays.com, Nov. 29) Disillusioned with American life, Nicholas Sunder has spent months backpacking through South Asia, most recently in the company of a beautiful French woman he met in India. When the woman is found brutally murdered in the Tribal Areas of...
