Shalimar the Clown

The Place is Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is Knifed to Death on the Doorstep of His Illegitimate Daughter India, Slaughtered by His Kashmiri Driver, a Mysterious Figure Who Calls Himself Shalimar, the Clown. the Dead Man is a World War Ii Resistance Hero, a Man of Formidable Intellectual Ability and Much Erotic Appeal, a Former United States Ambassador to India, and Subsequently America's Counter-Terrorism Chief. the Murder Looks at First Like a Political Assassination but Turns Out to Be Passionately Personal. This is the Story of Max, His Killer, and His Daughter - and of a Fourth Character, the Woman Who Links Them All. the Story of a Deep Love Gone Fatally Wrong, Destroyed by a Shallow Affair, It is an Epic Narrative That Moves From California to France, England, and Above All, Kashmir a Ruined Paradise, Not so Much Lost As Smashed.