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Book 1 of The Karta Trilogy

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Pub Date Sep 18 2026 | Archive Date Mar 31 2027


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Description

A sweeping, multi-generational family saga that delivers an exciting and page-turning historical crime thriller.

It’s a captivating story of love, betrayal and redemption for colonial sins.

Dublin, 2021. A Sikh-Irish CEO is arrested and faces life-threatening challenges in prison as his world falls apart. An illicit affair. A grandfather murdered on a Kenyan road in 1967. And a colonial-era crime syndicate that has waited sixty years for revenge.

As Apu fights for his freedom, his family chase the truth across continents, into a past that someone has spent a lifetime burying.

It all begins in the Punjab, with the sons of a carpenter emigrating to Kenya and building a fortune in a country where the Empire has stolen vast lands from the Kikuyu and Maasai. Those who resisted were killed or imprisoned in labour camps of unspeakable horror.

Through four generations, the Karta family carry their faith with them, the Kara on the wrist, the Gurdwara at the heart of every new city, and the duty and honour of the head of the family, handed from father to son.

Around them, an Irish crime boss and a Kikuyu chief forge an uneasy alliance that corrupts the colonial government from within, and threatens the very existence of the Karta family.

The Karta Legacy is the first book of the Karta Trilogy, a compelling saga of inheritance and complicity that traces the conflict from its roots in India and the plains of East Africa to a dramatic and unexpected climax.

A sweeping, multi-generational family saga that delivers an exciting and page-turning historical crime thriller.

It’s a captivating story of love, betrayal and redemption for colonial sins.

Dublin...


A Note From the Publisher

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ISBN: 978-1-0668214-0-2
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ISBN: 978-1-0668214-1-9
EPUB (eBook)

ISBN: 978-1-0668214-2-6
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ISBN: 978-1-0668214-3-3
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ISBN: 978-1-0668214-4-0
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FORMATS AVAILABLE

ISBN: 978-1-0668214-0-2
Paperback black & white interior

ISBN: 978-1-0668214-1-9
EPUB (eBook)

ISBN: 978-1-0668214-2-6
Hardback, black & white interior

ISBN:...


Advance Praise

A real page turner. Excellent!

Maggie Munroe


Fantastic book, combining interesting Kenyan and Indian
events during colonial rule, with a gripping storyline.

Rodger Evans


Best book I've read for ages!
Thank you.

Zahira Khan


A lovely historical, multigenerational and ethnic story
with a gripping ending. Looking forward to the next one!

Catherine Briggs

A real page turner. Excellent!

Maggie Munroe


Fantastic book, combining interesting Kenyan and Indian
events during colonial rule, with a gripping storyline.

Rodger Evans


Best book I've read for ages!
Thank...


Marketing Plan

Positioned for literary-thriller and diaspora-fiction crossover readers aged 35–65, in the tradition of Home Fire (Kamila Shamsie), An Officer and a Spy (Robert Harris), and A Rising Man (Abir Mukherjee), The Karta Legacy is book one of a planned trilogy, with book two already in development — offering ongoing promotional opportunity across future releases.

A short book trailer is live on YouTube ("The Karta Legacy by Jas Singh — Official Book Trailer").



Positioned for literary-thriller and diaspora-fiction crossover readers aged 35–65, in the tradition of Home Fire (Kamila Shamsie), An Officer and a Spy (Robert Harris), and A Rising Man (Abir...


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ISBN 9781066821402
PRICE £12.99 (GBP)
PAGES 396

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