title: Sacred Games: A Novel (P.S.)
author:  Vikram Chandra 
description: SACRED GAMES [is] as hard to put down as it is to pick up. (New York Times Book Review)<br /><br />Page after page it plucks me from the here and now. (Sven Birkerts, Boston Sunday Globe)<br /><br />Chandra gives a startling, blood-pumping fallible humanity to his characters. (Sandip Roy, San Francisco Chronicle)<br /><br />RavishingExtraordinary...A chaotic and luminous whole. (Entertainment Weekly)<br /><br />Chandraknows exactly when to break rules and when to follow themChandras genius is in the way he trusts his reader. (Los Angeles Times)<br /><br />Ambitious, sprawling...combines the attractions of 19th-century fiction and a modern police procedural. (People)<br /><br />A genre-bending, multilayered saga...expertly paced and nuanced...A sheer entertainment extravaganza. (Elle)<br /><br />As sprawling as the heat-drenched city it richly portrays. (New York Times)<br /><br />Bold, fresh and bigSACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement. (Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air)<br /><br />MonumentalChandra brilliantly evokes...Mumbai...in all its vibrant chaos. (Wall Street Journal)
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  Sacred Games
  
  VIKRAM CHANDRA
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For  
  Anuradha Tandon  
  and  
  S. Hussain Zaidi
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  [Acknowledgements](index_split_003.html#filepos5243)
  
  [Dramatis Personae](index_split_004.html#filepos7921)
  
  [Policeman’s Day](index_split_005.html#filepos11801)
  
  [Siege in Kailashpada](index_split_006.html#filepos79274)
  
  [Ganesh Gaitonde Sells His Gold](index_split_007.html#filepos136955)
  
  [Going Towards Home](index_split_008.html#filepos182701)
  
  [Ganesh Gaitonde Acquires Land](index_split_009.html#filepos282299)
  
  [Investigating Women](index_split_010.html#filepos354223)
  
  [INSET: A House in a Distant City](index_split_011.html#filepos449833)
  
  [Burying the Dead](index_split_012.html#filepos541141)
  
  [Ganesh Gaitonde Wins an Election](index_split_013.html#filepos634559)
  
  [Old Pain](index_split_014.html#filepos745233)
  
  [INSET: The Great Game](index_split_015.html#filepos806009)
  
  [Money](index_split_016.html#filepos916425)
  
  [Ganesh Gaitonde is Recruited](index_split_01