In a small village somewhere in rural Bangladesh an old man starts behaving in bizarre ways. Rashed, an undergraduate in Dacca, comes under police suspicion: presumed guilty of murder. A thousand-year-old book goes missing from a house in Shantinagar and a group of Satan worshippers are let loose by their leader to retrieve it. Who is this strange old man? Why was a boy-next-door like Shamim murdered? What is Nikolas Carson
