The Cardamom Club

A fast-moving, timely novel, The Cardomom Club tells the story of Raj Nair, an MI6 agent working a cover job as a doctor at the British High Commission’s medical centre in Delhi, treating Indian politicians who prefer private Western medicine, Raj soon discovers the man behind a news agency that is doing its best to portray India as too backward for nuclear capability. Raj’s investigations are dramatically halted, however, when he discovers some disturbing information about his father, an Indian immigrant who worked for twenty years in the British nuclear industry.