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<p>'Bold, addictive and brilliant.' Stylist, best fiction 2021</p> <p>A Times Bestseller</p> <p>A Times Sunday Times Best Crime Books of 2021</p> <p>A Waterstones Thriller of The Month</p> <p> </p> <p>Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men.</p> <p>Jia Khan has always lived like this.</p> <p>Successful London lawyer Jia Khan is a long way from the Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father, Akbar Khan, led the Pakistani community and ran the local organised crime syndicate.<br> Often his Jirga rule - the old way - was violent and bloody, but it was always justice of a kind.<br> Now, with her father murdered, Jia must return to take his place. Justice needs to be restored, and Jia is about to discover that justice always comes at a cost.</p> <p> </p> <p>'A fascinating glimpse into a world rarely portrayed in fiction.' Guardian, best crime and thrillers</p> <p>'A once-in-a-generation crime thriller.' A.A.Dhand, author of Streets of Darkness</p>