Dongri to Dubai

“The Don was back on the throne.”

I managed to finish off this book in mere two days. Such engrossing is this account of the Bombay mafia, by Hussain Zaidi. The book takes you on a exhilarating journey inside the dark and gruesome underworld of Mumbai, right from it's initial days to the end of its existence. It's also an intriguing tale of how a local boy from Dongri Dawood Ibrahim goes on to become a global Don and ultimately a terrorist! Almost the entire era of the Bombay mafia is covered in this book, right from Haji Mastan and Vardarajan to Dawood, Rajan and Shakeel and Salem, covering their lives and their backstory in its entirety. The book literally transports you in the 80s and 90s, when the Mumbai underworld gangsters were terrorizing the streets of Mumbai. After all, who could tell you about the Mumbai underworld much better than a crime reporter of that time! Totally worth reading indeed!