The Patient Assassin

Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of Udham Singh, a Punjabi revolutionary who spent two decades methodically planning revenge for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre before assassinating a former British official in a London ballroom in 1940. The book interweaves colonial atrocity, obsessive patience and the long, corrosive shadow of empire.

ISBN 9781471174223 · Simon & Schuster UK · 2019