The Ganja Coast. [Paperback]

PAUL. MANN (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ivy Books, New York: February (1996)
• ASIN: B0012Q6WY4
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,452,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Paul Mann was born in the northeast of England, the only son of a police constable and a nurse. After a career as an itinerant journalist working in several different countries he settled in smalltown Maine. He is the author of several techno-thrillers, including 'The Britannia Contract,' and the George Sansi murder mystery series set in India, including 'Season Of The Monsoon.' After a 15 year digression he has resumed writing and has two new books on Kindle, 'The Witch's Code,' his first foray into supernatural mystery writing, and 'The Leek Club' a semi-autobiographical novel about growing up in the coalfields of East Northumberland.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best mystery I've read in many a year, August 21, 1997

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William Sugarman "nprfan1" (Great Neck, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ganja Coast (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a better book than Mann's first Sansi mystery ("Season of the Monsoon"), and I loved that book as well. As soon as you open the book and start reading it, you feel as though you are actually in India - Mann's descriptive powers, both of people and places, are that good. And, as with "Season", the violence is mostly implied, and yet you cringe at it just the same (it's implied except for the scenes with the swami and the cobra, and I REALLY cringed at that). My only complaint with the book was with the character of Annie Ginnaro. Because a major part of the book deals with expatriated American hippies, her role is a necessary one, but somehow, she still seems out of place to me. A lot of Mann's story seems stilted when Annie is involved. But I'm still anxiously awaiting the third Sansi mystery, which is currently available in hardcover

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How many mysteries have you read that are set in Goa?, July 7, 1997

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Mary Whipple (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ganja Coast (Mass Market Paperback)

By the time you careen through the plot of the Ganja Coast, you'll know more than you may want to know about the corruption of Indian politics, the bribe-ability of the police, the plenitude of available drugs, and the cheap price of human life.

Paul Mann's Ganja Coast features George Sansi, an Anglo-Indian lawyer/police inspector who tries to defeat the efforts of the Minister for Economic Development, Rajiv Banerjee, to gain so much financial power that he can blackmail members of the cabinet into appointing him to greater political power. Sansi "vacations" in Goa with his American newspaper reporter girlfriend, Annie Ginnaro, whose observations provide Sansi with an opportunity to explain political machinations indirectly to an audience of readers unfamiliar with Indian politics.

Members of the cabinet, with Banerjee's help, are buying up large tracts of land along the Goa coast prior to its being named a free port and developed into a major tourist destination. The coast is presently inhabited primarily by ex-patriate former hippies heavily into the drug scene, which is controlled by Rajiv Banerjee. As the political and drug worlds collide with substantial loss of life, Sansi the investigator illustrates what is good about India and its people

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars india, July 20, 2010

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fredina hashim "reader nerd" (washington d.c. area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ganja Coast (George Sansi) (Paperback)

I found the george sansi books engrossing and informative,the characters are very human and one likes them and wants to know them better.I am unable to find any more sansi novels other than the three I have.What happened to mr. Mann?Did he stop writing?I would love to find any further books in this series if they exist,Help!!!