num_pages: 368
description: Down market lanes crammed with too many people dogs and rickshaws past stalls that smell of cardamom and sizzling oil below a smoggy sky that doesnt let through a single blade of sunlight and all the way at the end of the Purple metro line lies a jumble of tin-roofed homes where nine-year-old Jai lives with his family. From his doorway he can spot the glittering lights of the citys fancy high-rises and though his mother works as a maid in one to him they seem a thousand miles away.Jai drools outside sweet shops watches too many reality police shows and considers himself to be smarter than his friends Pari (though she gets the best grades) and Faiz (though Faiz has an actual job). When a classmate goes missing Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants and together they draw up lists of people to interview and places to visit.But what begins as a game turns sinister as other children start disappearing from their neighborhood. Jai Pari and Faiz have to confront terrified parents an indifferent police force and rumors of soul-snatching djinns. As the disappearances edge ever closer to home the lives of Jai and his friends will never be the same again.Drawing on real incidents and a spate of disappearances in metropolitan India.
language: English
title: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
publisher: Random House