Book review: A case of Exploding Mangoes
Title: 𝗔 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗲𝘀 Author: 𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗳 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔: Storytelling: 4/5 Enjoyment: 4/5 Recommended: yes Fact-fulness: 3/5 "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦." -Muhammad Hanif The story is about one of the most intriguing murder mysteries of recent times: The death of General Zia, US Ambassador Raphael and Top brass of Pakistan army (when they were planning to have a mango party) in a crash of Pak one on August 17, 1988. The time when US and Pakistan were busy fighting the Communists in Afghanistan. The novel tries to explore how President Zia’s plane that only flew less than 50 hours, had no technical faults, had top class pilots in the cockpit was crashed. Personally, I feel the author has been too harsh on Pakistan Military. Factually, this book do presents a theory which by the looks of it, appea...