There's like one chapter too many in Tahir Bhatti's novel.
An endless gray page after a fairy tale.
Tahir was the Pakistani immigrant who started from nothing, who in the 1970s slept on the sidewalk and entered stores with three words in French: “I'm looking for work.
» Young Bahtti carried boxes.
Becoming a trader, he made a name for himself in the Sentier, then an empire in textiles.
His remarkable rise crowned with parties, money and beautiful girls inspired one of the characters in “The Truth If I Lie” in the cinema.
Tahir the jet-setter was loved.
Someone betrayed him.
The criminals needed good information, he reiterates.
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