In 1991, Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls--a World War II Resistance hero, ex-ambassador to India, and America's counterterrorism chief--is murdered on the Los Angeles doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India's home by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, who calls himself Shalimar the clown, in a sweeping story of love and revenge in a troubled age. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.