The Moor of Bombay

Bombay has taught Owais Mirza how to survive almost everything.

Love will prove more dangerous.

For two decades, Owais has risen through the violent machinery surrounding the Vardhan family: docks, politicians, police, smugglers, unions and men whose loyalty lasts exactly as long as fear does.

Then he marries Devika Vardhan.

She is younger, fiercely independent and the daughter of the family Owais has served for most of his adult life. She chooses him knowing exactly what the marriage will cost.

Her father calls it betrayal.

A rejected suitor calls it theft.

And Ish Grover, the man who has stood beside Owais for fourteen years, watches another door close in front of him.

While Bombay's criminal throne begins to shift beneath them, Owais and Devika attempt to build a marriage inside a world where affection is weakness, information is currency and every private detail can become a weapon.

Then the evidence begins.

A photograph.

A piece of jewellery where it should never have been.

A conversation heard incorrectly.

A truth presented at precisely the wrong moment.

Owais has survived bullets by trusting his instincts.

Now those instincts are turning against the woman he loves.

And the most dangerous man in Bombay may be the one who understands exactly what Owais needs to believe.

The Moor of Bombay is a dark crime tragedy of love, jealousy, organised power and manipulation, inspired by Shakespeare's Othello and rebuilt inside the underworld of Bombay.

Jealousy does not need a lie.
Sometimes it only needs the truth arranged correctly.