FOUR AND TWENTY BLACK BIRDS : THE INSANE LIFE OF AN ENGLISH SMUGGLER IN BOMBAY
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Description
- Published : December 2021
- AUTHOR : Godfrey Joseph Pereira
- Publisher : Speaking Tiger
- MRP : 499.00
- Pages : 296
- Binding Typ0e : Paperback
- Category : Historical fiction
- ISBN : 9789354472176
- Language : English
ABOUT THE BOOK
Midnight, 15 August 1947. As India’s tryst with destiny reverberated across
the world, Charlie Strongbow, born in Bombay, a renegade Englishman,
mercenary, philosopher and schizophrenic, began his own bizarre journey.
While nascent India floundered and struggled, Charlie, along with an
English goon called Thommo, a devious accountant named Willie, a vicious
Portuguese temptress, Dona Maria, and twenty British desperadoes, took
possession of Cross Island near the Bombay Docks. Here they functioned in
illegal harmony, bound by no rules and no principles, and set about building a
black-market trade between Southampton and Bombay.
There was no stopping Charlie—but for memories of his own past filled with
the misery of childhood abuse and guilt at having abandoned his daughters. As
he drank himself to senselessness and let his inner demons take over, Detective
Desai, a man Charlie had destroyed, raised an unrelenting war against Cross
Island. But the severest blow of all would be struck by Dona Maria…
Based on true events, Four and Twenty Blackbirds is an utterly gripping novel—
the disturbing, astonishing story of an Englishman who won everything but
lost his soul on a no man’s land in the Arabian Sea.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Pali Village, Bombay, Godfrey Joseph Pereira finished high school
at Saint Andrew’s School. He graduated from college with a degree in English
Literature and Philosophy. What followed was a career in journalism. He
was Assistant Editor at Society Magazine, Principal Correspondent at Sunday
Magazine and India Today, and worked as a war correspondent covering the
First Gulf War from Israel. His first novel Bloodline Bandra was published
by HarperCollins in 2014. The novel made the ‘Top Ten’ List at Oxford
Bookstore. He has lived and worked as a journalist in New York City and New
Jersey and now works and resides in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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