Review: Fascinating and utterly gripping read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2014
Rupee Millionaires was a bloody brilliant read! I find myself reading a lot of travel/memoir books, and I was genuinely surprised by how gripping this tale became. In the end, I read the whole thing through in a night, staying up until dawn to find out what happened to Frank and Spud. It's an almost unbelievable story, following the author's journey from nothing to the heights of a fashion-import mogul - and back - several times over! The graphic depictions of India, in all its delight and squalor, were fascinating to me, but most of all I enjoyed the roller-coaster nature of Frank's life, as he careened from dodgy deal to disaster to triumph to catastrophe. And as for Spud... well, I hope I never meet him down a dark alley! Riveting stuff, brilliantly written.