Sacred Games reaches from the violent partition of India and Pakistan to terrorism in present day London. Opening with the death of a gangster in Mumbai, Inspector Sartaj Singh must discover what the man was up to in the last days of his life. Even the minor characters are captivating and engaging. What is good, what is evil? Is it possible the violence visited upon us today sprang from the seed of discontent sown when lines were drawn on a map in government offices thousands of miles away? Are the gangsters and the rulers really flip sides of the same coin?