Hawk and Hyena: What Really Happened to The Serpent

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Hawk and Hyena is the remarkable, true story of serial killer Charles Sobhraj. Written by novelist, television executive and screen writer Farrukh Dhondy, Hawk and Hyena adds radical and revealing new information to the story recently portrayed in the worldwide hit BBC One/Netflix television series The Serpent.

Farrukh Dhondy knew serial killer Charles Sobhraj very well. He still does. Dhondy tracked his movements across the world over years. He was continuously in contact with him. From Paris to London, Kathmandu to India, London to Nepal, this remarkable true story now exposes the truth behind the killer world of the infamous Charles Sobhraj, his many women, his murders, and his mercilessly cruel participation in world events – and television mogul Farrukh Dhondy’s fascination with a serial killer’s degraded and violent life.

In 1997 Dhondy’s world, in his glass-walled office as Britain’s Channel 4 Commissioning Editor, suddenly exploded into the world history of the last 30 years when Sobhraj phoned him from Paris.

Characters in this true-life story include Boris Johnson, then editor of The Spectator, prime minister Tony Blair, the CIA and MI6 – among many others.

The most sensational events described Sobhraj‘s attempt to help develop the weapons of mass destruction with which Tony Blair sought to justify the Iraq war; Sobhraj’s knowledge of the terrorist bombing of Mumbai; his betrayal of his terrorist bomber friend Masood; his close contact with the CIA; his prison escapes, and his choice of decades of incarceration in prison to avoid execution.

Eye-opening in its totally realistic surfaces, this incredible true story is at the intersection of life and death, crime and punishment, sex and killing. The events described are hard to believe – even when we know that they are true. Dhondy unjudgmentally depicts Sobhraj’s completely merciless killing of scores of innocent people with bleak astonishment.

Farrukh Dhondy is at the centre of British cultural life. The author of Tandoori Nights, a Marxist, a friend of the great and the good, his curious and extraordinary surveillance of serial killer Charles Sobhraj takes him to the very limits of morality, political extremism, international intrigue, terrorism and world politics – in short, the hidden deceptions of international diplomacy. But this is not just international diplomacy, it is international diplomacy underpinned by serial killing. You will not believe what you read – but it’s true.

Language: English

Pages: 117

Format: Hardcover

Release: November 06, 2021

ISBN 13: 9798760761460

Hawk and Hyena: What Really Happened to The Serpent

Farrukh Dhondy

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