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...against terror. "I'm a little anxious," said Kathy Taggart as she prepared to board a flight to Houston with Samantha, 18 months. "It's my first flight since 9/11. But I'd rather go through this than end up with terrorists on the plane." Cyrus Daruwalla, an accountant from Malaysia, had been selected for screening at every stop on his two-week trip through the U.S. Still, he said, "I don't feel victimized. I know the threat perception is greater for foreigners. The screening procedures don't really bother...
...against terror. "I'm a little anxious," said Kathy Taggart as she prepared to board a flight to Houston with Samantha, 18 months. "It's my first flight since 9/11. But I'd rather go through this than end up with terrorists on the plane." Cyrus Daruwalla, an accountant from Malaysia, had been selected for screening at every stop on his two-week trip through the U.S. Still, he said, "I don't feel victimized. I know the threat perception is greater for foreigners. The screening procedures don't really bother...
...reader-proof as well. With so much going on -- premise piling upon premise, coincidence upon coincidence -- the point of it all begins to grow muzzy. As the edifice of Irving's invention rears ever upward, the people who inhabit it all begin to look as small as Dr. Daruwalla's dwarfs...
...closest thing to a ringmaster -- a character at the center of the action -- is 59-year-old Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla. Born in Bombay and educated in Vienna, Daruwalla practices orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Every so often he puts in a stint at the Hospital for Crippled Children in Bombay, but it is not just these young patients who lure him back to India. The doctor has developed an interest in finding a genetic marker for a form of dwarfism; to pursue his research he must draw blood from dwarfs, and a good supply...
Irving gives his hero yet another reason for visiting India. Daruwalla is the secret screenwriter behind the Inspector Dhar movies, a wildly popular and controversial series featuring a sneering, tough-talking Western-style gumshoe. Every Dhar film offends some segment of Bombay's populace; the number of people who resent the main character has grown with each new release. Death threats have begun cropping up among the hate mail. The actor who plays Dhar bears a complicated and secret relationship to Daruwalla, and also has an identical twin, separated at birth, who knows nothing of his locally infamous brother...
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