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<p><b>A Times UK Bestseller</b><br><b>A Times & Sunday Times UK Best Crime Books of 2021</b><br><b>A Waterstones Best Crime & Thriller of 2021</b><br></p><p><b>Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men.</b></p><p><b>Jia Khan has always lived like this.</b></p><p>Successful London lawyer Jia Khan is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father, Akbar Khan, led the Pakistani community and ran the local organized crime syndicate. Often his Jirga rule – the old way – was violent and bloody, but it was always justice of a kind.</p><p>Now, with her father murdered, Jia must return to take his place. The police have always relied on the Khan to maintain the fragile order of the streets. But a bloody power struggle has broken out among warring communities and nobody is safe.</p><p>Justice needs to be restored, and Jia is about to discover that justice always comes at a cost.</p>