'Sensationally good - huge epic immersive and absorbing . . . certain to be a book of the
year' Lee Child New Delhi 3am: a speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb and in an instant five
people are dead. It's a rich man's car but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all
only a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain what has led to this carnage. Age of Vice is
a novel propelled by the enormous wealth startling corruption and bloody violence of the Wadia
family - loved by some loathed by others feared by all. Among the lavish estates decadent
parties predatory business tactics and political manoeuvring three lives become dangerously
entwined. Ajay is the watchful servant born into poverty who rises through the Wadia ranks as
a trusted servant and fixer. Sunny is the playboy heir who dreams of escaping from and
outshining his father whatever the cost. And Neda is the inquiring journalist caught between
her morality and her desire. In a world fuelled by loss pleasure greed yearning violence
and revenge will these characters' connections become a path to escape or to annihilation?
Part thriller part family saga Age of Vice leaps off the page taking us from the
unimaginable poverty of the villages of Uttar Pradesh to the teeming streets marble mansions
and gleaming corporate headquarters of New Delhi. It is an intoxicating novel of gangsters and
lovers false friendships forbidden love and the consequences of corruption. You won't be able
to look away - because here is the age of vice where money pleasure and power are everything
and the ties that bind can also kill. 'This book. This epic crazy shocking mind-blowing
brutal tender heartbreaking book is one of the best I've read' Marlon James Booker Prize
winner and New York Times bestselling author of MOON WITCH SPIDER KING 'A good old-fashioned
gangster story impossible to put down. It's a novel garlanded with Shakespearean flourishes -
star-crossed lovers secret identities complicated conspiracies - exploring timeless questions
of family loyalty and fate' Rumaan Alam National Book Award finalist and New York Times
bestselling author of Leave the World Behind 'Kapoor spins a dizzying ride painting an India
where money is the only religion . . . Weaving the backstories of Ajay Neda and Sunny
together this frenetic and colourful novel highlights the new global pecking order one forged
by capitalism in which the rich always win' Booklist starred review 'Deeply addictive this
spellbinder would be easy to devour in one big gulp but it's worth savoring . . . the author
possesses a talent great enough to match the massive scope of her subject' Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
