Ebook {Epub PDF} A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

 · Abir Mukherjee grew up in the west of Scotland. At the age of fifteen, his best friend made him read Gorky Park and he’s been a fan of crime fiction ever since. The child of immigrants from India, A Rising Man, his debut novel, was inspired by a desire to learn more about a crucial period in Anglo-Indian history that seems to have been almost forgotten/5(K).  · Written by Abir Mukherjee — Calcutta, , and the city is full of rising men. There are the colonials making fortunes in commodities like rubber and jute, or grafting in the administration in ways they never could back in the UK. There are cloth merchants and bankers. A Rising Man, his debut novel, won the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition and is the first in a new series starring Captain Sam Wyndham and "Surrender-Not" Banerjee. Abir is married with two small children and lives in London. Name Pronunciation. Abir Mukherjee: AH-beer MOO-ker-jee.

A good historical novel can teach as well as entertain. And certainly Abir Mukherjee does both in his first novel, "A Rising Man". Set in Calcutta in the British Raj in , the book features former Scotland Yard detective Sam Wyndham, who has moved to Calcutta after his service in the Great War and the subsequent death of his young wife from influenza.e story is part police procedural and. Abir Mukherjee's series of novels set in colonial India is crime fiction at its finest. The Scottish-born author's debut in , "A Rising Man", followed two officers of the Imperial. Read A Rising Man and find out. If you like the sound of this, you might also like a novel by Brian Stoddart whose series is also set in India. And, you can read about how Abir Mukherjee won a Daily Telegraph/Harvill Secker writing competition to have this book published, here. Harvill Secker Print/Kindle/iBook £ CFL Rating: 5 Stars.

Abir Mukherjee is the Times bestselling author of the Sam Wyndham series of crime novels set in Raj era India. His debut, A Rising Man, won the CWA Endeavour Dagger for best historical crime novel of and was shortlisted for the MWA Edgar for best novel. His second novel, A Necessary Evil, won the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing and was a Zoe Ball Book Club pick. A Rising Man, his debut novel, won the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition and is the first in a new series starring Captain Sam Wyndham and "Surrender-Not" Banerjee. Abir is married with two small children and lives in London. Name Pronunciation. Abir Mukherjee: AH-beer MOO-ker-jee. Abir Mukherjee is the Times bestselling author of the Sam Wyndham series of crime novels set in Raj era India. His debut, A Rising Man, won the CWA Endeavour Dagger for best historical crime novel of and was shortlisted for the MWA Edgar for best novel.