![]() ![]() His narrative remains true to how Dawood was viewed at the various phases of his life. Most importantly, Zaidi doesn't view Dawood through the lenses of hindsight, which is not an easy task given the iconic status that man has come to assume. But the book's shortcomings become obvious only because the expectations are very high, and in the final analysis, they are outweighed by its many positives. This is despite it being a work of fiction, or perhaps because of it. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (who incidentally has written the foreword for Dongri to Dubai) had a much better depiction of the wheels-within-wheels nature of crime, politics and espionage in Mumbai. ![]() But surely the amount of space wasted on details of the mannerisms of the various dons and a rather superfluous chapter on Osama Bin Laden's killing could have been utilised in bringing some analytical depth. It is unfair to expect a book to be encyclopaedic in the ground it covers. ![]()
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