ANOTHER LOOK AT THE D-COMPANY

From Dubai To Karachi: The Dawood Saga Continues

- Author: S. Hussain Zaidi

Hussain Zaidi's page-turner Dubai to Karachi once again brings to life the incredibly complex yet king-size life of Dawood Ibrahim. Is it a surprise that India's most wanted is a powerful yet shadowy figure in the Pakistani establishment?

Hussain Zaidi is India's number-one storyteller when it comes to crime. The number of books he has written. He has written close to two dozen books and such is his reputation as a fearless reporter of the underworld that the dons and the henchmen look at him with respect and prefer to speak to him.

Dubai to Karachi is not a narrative that moves by sequence, much rather a series of vignettes on how the Don supremo works from his expansive house at the Defence Enclave in Karachi. If it is a Dawood book, inevitably, characters who have been part of his life through the years will also find space. So, you have Chhota Rajan, Chhota Shakeel, Tiger Memom, Yakub Memon, and Iqbal Mirchi entering and exiting the narrative at different times.

Zaidi is on record, many a time, saying that Dawood Ibrahim is the most powerful man in Pakistan and that he can make and unmake governments in that country. He reiterates that in the book and explains how Prime Ministers are appointed and presidents made thanks to the reach and bandwidth of Dawood Ibrahim in the Pakistani establishment.