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A shared moment of high comedy brings together two strangers on a train, but the couple's intimacy is broken by the girl's sudden and unexplained flight. Returning home to find his father has been abducted, Olly's resolve is tested by the simultaneous need to find him and the lost girl. This is a story of the determined pursuit by a small and newly connected group of characters, each with a reason and talent to help, who must enter the mean realm of illicit drugs where nave prohibition in the face of persistent consumption leads to rich pickings for the ruthless and a crisis for the world. The quest evolves into a search for a secret Indian haveli in the deserts of Rajasthan, and also for the Achilles heel of Saleem, a heartless, vile and virtueless opponent...