Last Man in Tower

<p><b>From the Booker Prize–winning author of <i>The White Tiger</i>, a stunning novel of greed and murder in contemporary Mumbai. <br><br></b>At the heart of Adiga's gripping second novel ("his plots don’t unwind, they surge" —<i>USA Today) </i>are two equally compelling men, poised for a showdown.<br><br>Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a luxury building named the Shanghai. Larger-than-life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in retired schoolteacher Masterji. Shah offers a generous buyout to Masterji and his neighbors in a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building on whose site Shah’s high-rise would be built. They can’t believe their good fortune. Except, that is, for Masterji, who refuses to abandon the building he has long called home. <br><br>As the demolition deadline looms, desires mount; neighbors become enemies, and acquaintances turn into conspirators who risk losing their humanity to score their payday. Here is a richly told, suspense-fueled story of ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none: the new India as only Aravind Adiga could explore—and expose—it.</p>