Last Man in Tower

Aravind Adiga’s first novel since his Man Booker Prize–winning best seller The White Tiger: a stunning, darkly comic story of greed and murder that lays bare the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah’s offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society — a formerly respectable, now crumbling apartment complex that abuts the infamous Dharavi slums — is more than generous. But one man stands in the way of Shah’s luxury high- rise: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher who will not leave his home in Vishram’s Tower A. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse, but as the demolition deadline looms, Masterji’s neighbors — friends who have become enemies, acquaintances turned co-conspirators — may stop at nothing to score their payday. An electrifying, suspense-filled story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, peopled by brilliantly drawn, unforgettable characters, LAST MAN IN TOWER exposes the hearts and minds of the everymen and women of a great, booming city — ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none.