My Name is Abu Salem

Awesome, fact is stranger than fiction.You will like it much more than any bogus crime/thriller. It's a true story so linking to the existing news and all gives you a pleasure. Great to see the nuances of film industry, mafias etc. It gives you real life account into1. Dons/mafias. There thinking. Social issues etc.2.. Terrorism, crime, communal clashes, fights, secular India etc. It gives you a glimpse into the life of how these people operate thinking etc.3. No news etc cover so much details.I definitely want to other other works to the same author.

S. Hussain Zaidi never disappoints and this book too holds the reader's interest till the very end. The highlight is that it doesn't romanticise the don or the violence nor is it harsh on him. It singlemindedly focuses on facts and tells a credible story. I can imagine the years of research and the humungous amount of work that must have gone into its writing. Do read it for a hardheaded view of the Mumbai underworld and for a peek into the mind of one of its most dreaded dons.

Again a very well written book by the author. In depth details of the life lived by Gangster Abu Salem using the underworld route.

The book is very good. Printing,text ETC is very good. Author and every thing is very good. The problem is that the Amazon has posted 288 pages (Book length) in product description and the actual pages is 248. We can understand difference of 5 to 8 or 10 pages but here the topic is for 40 pages. So please edit the product description thats it. Else every thing is V.good

Zaidi as usual rocks. I think a in parts his personal dislike for abu salem does come out but overall its a good read. feels like another bollywood thriller, though its actually the real life and times of abu salem

His life story is beyond the imaginations of bollywood directors. He established whip over entire mumbai and bollywood within a short time - within a blink of your eyes. However, like Ravanan he also fell prey to nets of a woman after which he changed his trajectory and ended up in jail. The author has done a wonderful job in writing the trilogy Black friday-My name is Abu salem-Dongri to dubai. It's worth the read for readers who are fond of biographies and crime stories - both fictious and non-fictitous.

Awesome interesting book ...nice work by Hussain zaidi

There's nothing in the novel. The only interesting part is about Sanjay Dutt's involvement with Salem in arms deal, and Salem involvement with Bollywood and one of it's startlet Monica. The most of the part is boring and nothing new that you haven't heard. Again Hussain Zaidi's narrative doesn't work and is kind of a fact telling rather than making the thing more interesting. I think his background from being a former news editor is not helping him to develop his narrative and add layers to his storytelling. If you are planning to spend on this, find any other good Indian author and buy his book, rather than buying average books by overrated authors.