Malika's Revenge

An Epic Crime Saga

By: Phillip Strang

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

For readers of Don Winslow, Roberto Bolaño, and James Ellroy

In the lawless borderlands between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, the heroin trade corrupts everyone it touches—and Malika Khalova will make them all pay.

Malika survives as a drug-addicted prostitute in a smuggler's village, serving men who see her as less than human. When Russian gangster Oleg Yezhov nearly beats her to death, she has nothing left but rage and the hunger for revenge.

But in the world of Afghan heroin, no story stands alone. Russian mafia battle Tajik drug lords for control of the routes north. Taliban commanders and corrupt politicians manipulate the trade for their causes. FSB agents hunt targets across borders. White-collar criminals in Moscow organize operations worth millions. And in the center of it all, Malika's thirst for vengeance becomes the spark that ignites a war.

As storylines converge across Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Russia, Malika's path intertwines with Yusup Baroyev, a Tajik drug lord who sees in her something more than a broken woman. Her revenge will come—but not in the way anyone expects. And when it does, the bodies will pile high on both sides of the Afghan border.

From drug-addicted prostitute to the woman who brings down empires. From the smuggler's village to the corridors of power. Malika's revenge is just the beginning.

An epic crime saga—and the woman at the center of its destruction.