"First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2021"--Title page verso

Maps -- Political groups -- Timeline of major events -- Prologue -- Safdar -- Parveen -- Siraj -- Jannat -- Zille -- Ashura -- Lyari -- Anarchy -- Sahiba -- The Karachi operation -- Bahria Town -- Aftershocks -- Author's note -- Glossary

Karachi. Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother's birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites. Shackle paints a vivid portrait of one of the most complex and compelling cities in the world, a city where the borders blur between politicians and gangsters and between lawful and unlawful, as dangerous new forces of violent extremism are pitted against old networks of power. Print run 40,000