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‘Bold, addictive and brilliant.’ Stylist, best fiction 2021

A Times Bestseller

A Times & Sunday Times Best Crime Books of 2021

A Waterstones Best Crime & Thriller of 2021

Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men.

Jia Khan has always lived like this.

Successful London lawyer Jia Khan is a long way from the Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father, Akbar Khan, led the Pakistani community and ran the local organised crime syndicate.
Often his Jirga rule – the old way – was violent and bloody, but it was always justice of a kind.
Now, with her father murdered, Jia must return to take his place. Justice needs to be restored, and Jia is about to discover that justice always comes at a cost.

‘A fascinating glimpse into a world rarely portrayed in fiction.’ Guardian, best crime and thrillers

‘A once-in-a-generation crime thriller.’  A.A.Dhand, author of Streets of Darkness