Rolf Potts is perhaps the most accomplished travel writer you have never heard of. Immerse yourself in an extraordinary tale of travel and survival coated in a palpable love for the country of India and the people of Bombay. Shantaram keeps you on the edge of your seat turning pages long after you intended to put it down. Lin gets his life back and gives up even more. Along the way he learns the requisite lessons of any great tale, but he gains something more. Lin finds himself as a medic in rat-infested slums, as a bodyguard for the Bombay mafia, and fighting alongside Mujaheddin guerrillas in the mountains. Lin, an Australian who just escaped a maximum-security prison, finds himself in Bombay where he quickly dives headfirst into a culture of poverty, gangsters, crime, ex-pats, actors, and punishment. In this transcendent opening line, Roberts promises us something that he goes on to deliver over and over again: An adventure worth listening too. “It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall being tortured.”
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