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History book that reads like a thriller (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by ta9876543205@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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I am reading Dongri to Dubai by S. Hussain Zaidi.

Growing up in Mumbai in the 1980s/90s, I remember reading news stories about the Mumbai gang wars.

This book covers that in great detail and as such qualifies as a genuine history book.

And yet, it reads like a potboiler. It is essentially unputdownable.

10/10

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[–] HoneyHonjour@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

A lot of investigative history books are like this. Two that come to mind are Blue Thunder by Thomas Burdick (a Playboy writer looking into the death of Miami speedboat pioneer Don Aranow) and Chaos by Tom O’Neill (about Charles Manson being an unwitting intelligence asset)