Kingpin

Anil Raichand was once the kind of man you might find in the pages of a society magazine: a handsome, high-flying industrialist with a wealthy father, a Ferrari, memberships at the right clubs, cigars and a few secret indiscretions. At twenty-six he was the most sought-after bachelor around. Educated, charismatic and heir to his father's fortune, he wanted two things: to become a tycoon in his own right by any means, and to find the perfect wife to help him get there. Now nearly fifty, Anil looks back on a ruined business empire, a shattered marriage, an estranged daughter and bitter parents. He drove himself to build enormous wealth and watched it all collapse. He must now face the price of his ambition, while clinging to the memory of a woman he once turned away. Kavita Daswani's Kingpin unfolds over four decades. It moves from Anil's boyhood in Singapore to the Bombay marriage market, then to a love affair with the wrong woman in Hong Kong, and finally to his meteoric rise and fall in Dubai, with counterfeit goods at the center of his dealings.