The Green Gene

A Crime Novel

By: Peter Dickinson

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Paperback | 7 April 2015

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180 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 1.07

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CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is back: An Indian doctor joins the English underground to fight racial oppression

Dr. P. P. Humayan expects prejudice from the English. Growing up in Bombay, he was raised on stories of the injustices of life in Britain, where racial status is marked on one’s papers and anyone of Celtic descent is born with green skin and forced to live in walled-off ghettos. But when he travels to London to announce that he has solved the genetic mystery of why the Celts are born green, he is shocked by the system’s brutality. Only one English girl is kind to him—and she will soon find herself in mortal peril.

When his host family is murdered, Humayan slips underground, joining a small band of rebels who would do anything to see racial equality restored to England. There are powerful men working to maintain the sinister status quo, and bringing them down will be the toughest problem this mathematician has ever faced.

Industry Reviews

“There are few more ingenious writers of crime fiction than Peter Dickinson.” —London Evening Standard

“Peter Dickinson is a national treasure.” —The Independent

“The works of British mystery writer Peter Dickinson are like caviar—an acquired taste that can easily lead to addiction.” —Time

“A whopper . . . Fancy flies wild and the reading is hilarious.” —Vogue

“A wonderful political whimsy.” —The Oregonian

“One of our truly inventive writers teases the imagination and intellect simultaneously.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Clever, funny, adult.” —Newsday

“This man has an unfailing gift for the bizarre.” —Louis Untermeyer

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