Download or read book The Thing about Thugs written by Tabish Khair and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A subversive, darkly comic novel of a young Indian man's misadventures in Victorian London as the city is gripped by a series of gruesome murders. Shortlisted for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize, this sly update of the Gothic novel marks the new arrival of a compelling Indian voice in North America.