‘Told with striking panache. Announces the arrival of a fine, fresh new thriller writer’
Daily Mail
‘Combining humour and tragedy is one of the hardest literary challenges, but Khurrum Rahman succeeds.’
TLS
‘A brilliant thriller. You’d be mad not to buy this.’
Ben Aaronovitch
‘A very funny but tense thriller… Think Four Lions meets Phone Shop’
Red
‘As much a coming-of-age story as a full-on action thriller, East of Hounslow is thought-provoking and entirely gripping.’
Guardian
‘Excellent book. Phenomenal writing.’
BA Paris
‘Sweary, funny and, above all, an absolutely cracking thriller that you’ll tear through, this is the anti-James Bond that the 21st century needs’
Emerald Street
‘East of Hounslow, in which a young Muslim finds himself forced to become an MI5 plant in a group of jihadists, is as British as Nelson’s Column. A superb and exciting debut novel’
Telegraph
‘The best thriller I’ve read in ages’
Stephen Leather
‘I loved it. More please’
Mel McGrath
‘Builds to a heart-constricting climax’
Times Crime Club
‘Clipped dialogues, staccato sentences and the hilariously brilliant prose set the pace of this excellent unputdownable crime thriller. The climax will leave you breathless.’
New Indian Express
Born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1975 KHURRUM RAHMAN moved to England when he was one. He is a West London boy and now lives in Berkshire with his wife and two sons.
Khurrum is currently working as a Senior IT Officer but his real love is writing. He has a screenplay which has been optioned by a Danish TV producer but is now concentrating on novels.
His first two books in the Jay Qasim series, East of Hounslow and Homegrown Hero have been shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel and CWA John Creasey Debut Dagger.
Ride or Die
Khurrum Rahman
ONE PLACE. MANY STORIES
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Contents
Chapter 2: Imran Siddiqui (Imy)