RaveThe New York Sun...a fascinating glimpse beneath the surface of an Indian economic ‘miracle,’ a heart-stopping psychological tale of a premeditated murder and its aftermath, and a meticulously conceived allegory of the creative destruction that's driving globalization … The truth, as Balram portrays it, turns out to be quite a bit darker than anything you may have read in the business pages about the subcontinent's boulevards of gleaming new office towers. And while his against-all-odds rise owes much to hard work, courage, and determination, Balram most decidedly lacks the selfless virtue of the bootstrapping Horatio Alger character: He claws his way from indentured servitude to economic empowerment via acts of ruthlessness and, as he confesses in the first chapter, murder.
