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The Last Taxi Ride: Ranjit Singh Series, Book 2
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Ahmad, A. X.
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Ranjit Singh novels volume 2.
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St. Martin's Publishing Group 2014
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New York City taxi driver Ranjit Singh, hero of A.X. Ahmad's heralded debut The Caretaker, has 10 days to prove his innocence...
Bollywood film icon Shabana Shah has been murdered, her body found in the apartment where Ranjit ate dinner mere hours before. Ranjit's fingerprints are all over the murder weapon, a statue of the elephant god Ganesh used to grotesquely smash the actress' beautiful face. Caught on film leaving the apartment alone, Ranjit is accused by the NYPD as an accessory to murder.
Ranjit's only credible alibi is Shabana's Indian doorman, but he has vanished. With a Grand Jury arraignment looming in 10 days, and Ranjit's teenage daughter about to arrive from India, he must find the doorman. His search through the underbelly of New York leads to the world of high-end nightclub owners, back-alley Mumbai gangsters and to Jay Patel, a shady businessman who imports human hair. As his investigation for the true killer reveals layers of Shabana Shah's hidden past, Ranjit does not know whom to trust. He can rely only on his army training, his taxi-driver knowledge of New York, and his cabbie friends.
With time quickly running out, can Ranjit clear his name before his fare is up? The Last Taxi Ride is the second novel in the Ranjit Singh trilogy.

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A. X. Ahmad. (2014). The Last Taxi Ride: Ranjit Singh Series, Book 2. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

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A. X. Ahmad. 2014. The Last Taxi Ride: Ranjit Singh Series, Book 2. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

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Bollywood film icon Shabana Shah has been murdered, her body found in the apartment where Ranjit ate dinner mere hours before. Ranjit's fingerprints are all over the murder weapon, a statue of the elephant god Ganesh used to grotesquely smash the actress' beautiful face. Caught on film leaving the apartment alone, Ranjit is accused by the NYPD as an accessory to murder.
Ranjit's only credible alibi is Shabana's Indian doorman, but he has vanished. With a Grand Jury arraignment looming in 10 days, and Ranjit's teenage daughter about to arrive from India, he must find the doorman. His search through the underbelly of New York leads to the world of high-end nightclub owners, back-alley Mumbai gangsters and to Jay Patel, a shady businessman who imports human hair. As his investigation for the true killer reveals layers of Shabana Shah's hidden past, Ranjit does not know whom to trust. He can rely only on his army training, his taxi-driver knowledge of New York, and his cabbie friends.
With time quickly running out, can Ranjit clear his name before his fare is up? The Last Taxi Ride is the second novel in the Ranjit Singh trilogy.

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      • source: NPR, Best Books of 2015
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        "Great pacing and unforgettable details make this a procedural not to be missed."

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      • source: Bethanne Patrick, The Washingtonian
      • content: "Ranjit Singh is one of the most entertaining and fully realized amateur detectives to appear in years...."
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      • content: "This sequel to The Caretaker (2013) is another solid success for Ahmad, who conjures up a fascinating cast of characters from mobsters to cab drivers, illuminating South Asian expat culture and exploring the Indian Mafia's long reach... A strong, rapid-paced thriller with exotic interest; addictive reading."
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      • source: The Boston Globe
      • content: "Ahmad does a wonderful job of conveying the vibrant underworld that has become Singh's new life. As the action unfolds in the old garages and cheap ethnic restaurants where the cabbies congregate and where jailhouse lawyers hold meetings in back rooms, he builds a vision of a city that is more "Slumdog Millionaire" (or "Dirty Pretty Things") than "Manhattan".... [An] intriguing glimpse inside the South Asian immigrant experience, rich in flavors and expressions that can conjure a memory or throw a character back in time."
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        April 21, 2014
        In chapter one of Ahmad’s solid sequel to 2013’s The Caretaker, New York City cabbie Ranjit Singh is thrilled to realize that his fare is Shabana Shah, a famous Bollywood actress, who tips him generously when he delivers her to the Dakota, where she’s staying in a friend’s apartment. By coincidence, the Dakota doorman is Mohan Kumar, a junior colleague from Ranjit’s army days in India. That evening, the two old friends meet in a Dakota storage room, where they drink Scotch and reminisce. The next morning, the police show up at Ranjit’s cab company and claim that fingerprint evidence places him at the scene of Shabana’s murder in her apartment the night before. And Mohan, the one who can vouch for Ranjit, has disappeared. Ranjit, ever the gallant Sikh, makes a winning hero in a mystery revealing of how Indians do business—legitimate or otherwise—in New York and around the world. Agent: Stephanie Abou, Foundry Media.

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        June 1, 2014
        This sequel to The Caretaker (2013) is another solid success for Ahmad, who conjures up a fascinating cast of characters from mobsters to cab drivers, illuminating South Asian expat culture and exploring the Indian Mafia's long reach. Expat Indian Army Captain Ranjit Singh is building a new life in New York as a cab driver and part-time security guard. When Ranjit snags Bollywood actress Shabana Shah as a fare after cruising luxury shopping lanes, he's shocked to recognize her building's bellman as his Indian Army buddy Mohan. Ranjit meets Mohan that night, and they catch up over gourmet leftovers in Shah's empty apartment. It's a great evening, but the next morning homicide cops show up demanding to know why Ranjit's fingerprints are on the murder weapon used to brutally beat the actress. Ranjit's going down for murder unless he gets answers from the suddenly vanished Mohan, but his search gets tangled in a violent Indian Mafia power struggle, and he quickly becomes a target. A strong, rapid-paced thriller with exotic interest; addictive reading.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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Ranjit's only credible alibi is Shabana's Indian doorman, but he has vanished. With a Grand Jury arraignment looming in 10 days, and Ranjit's teenage daughter about to arrive from India, he must find the doorman. His search through the underbelly of New York leads to the world of high-end nightclub owners, back-alley Mumbai gangsters and to Jay Patel, a shady businessman who imports human hair. As his investigation for the true killer reveals layers of Shabana Shah's...

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