In Search of the Old Ones by David Roberts

This series of robust, retro capers with contemporary trappings will have readers feverishly turning the pages.” - Publishers Weekly Roberts keeps the action moving and the narrative engaging. He narrates his interactions with many larger-than-life street types in an energetic and often salty first person.

The dashing here Lin, an Australian fugitive, is worldly, two-fisted, rides a motorcycle, has a social conscience, quotes great writers and, as the book opens, struggles bravely to get over his lost love, Karla. “Roberts’s sequel to Shantaram defies easy categorization, one of its many charms. Shantaram is, in the minds of many, a classic, and it seems certain that Roberts’ latest will take readers on an adventure just as epic in scope and feeling.” -Bookish and re-immerse yourself in his vibrant and captivating world of love, friendship, and anger. But Lin can’t leave the Island City: Karla, and one final mission, won’t let him go.Ī love story of hope, humor, and the philosophical quest for the wisdom of our common humanity, The Mountain Shadow is a sublime, all-consuming novel of our extraordinary human struggle for love and faith, truth and redemption. Many of his old friends are long gone, his girlfriend-the radiant American Lisa-is spending more and more time with her partners at her art gallery, and the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues. Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. It has been two years since the events in Shantaram and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. In The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons playing by a different set of rules. Gregory David Robert’s epic debut novel, Shantaram, now a major television series from Apple TV+ starring Charlie Hunnam, introduced millions of readers to the heart of India and the hidden heart of Bombay through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia.

In Search of the Old Ones by David Roberts