Book excerpt: Zafar Khan is born in Kabul, Afghanistan during the invasion of the Soviet Union. He suffers as a misfit between religious and ethnic sects, resulting in the murder of his beloved guardian. Fate takes him to India where he is caught up in an unwanted love triangle, complicated by politicians, gangsters, and events fraught with murder, danger, and comic intrigue. Two stolen blue and gold diamond earrings are his hope for any meaningful future. Ali Yusufali's fourth novel lives up to the expected question after every chapter - What next?