
The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart if not my head I turned away from the red shadow I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers & Sanjay's improvidence I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness & I rode with my friends into the end of everything Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin an Australian fugitive working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia In The Mountain Shadow the long-awaited sequel Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons playing by a different set of rules It has been two years since the events in Shantaram & since Lin lost two people he had come to love his father figure Khaderbhai & his soul mate Karla married to a handsome Indian media tycoon Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much too soon Many of his old friends are long gone the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent & dangerous intrigues & a fabled holy man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love & life But Lin can't leave the Island City Karla & a fatal promise won't let him go