Cop-cum-author Omar Shahid Hamid just teased his new novel The Fix. The novel will tackle match-fixing and women’s cricket.
The author teased that his next literary work is a novel titled The Fix in a tweet:
Coming Soon #TheFix pic.twitter.com/4nCMWehqf7
— Omar Shahid Hamid (@omarshamid) April 24, 2019
The novel has already won an award at the Karachi Literary Festival.
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A riveting novel that focuses on match-fixing in women’s cricket
Based on the excerpt from the book, we know that the novel will particularly focus on match-fixing in women’s cricket.
The plot will follow a female player Saman Khan as she climbs the ranks of the national team to become the captain of the women’s team.
In the end, whether or not her team manages to win the World Cup has nothing to do with her efforts and everything to do with a dreaded match-fixing syndicate.
“Fate intervenes, and the team’s success attracts the great corruptors of the sport, the match-fixing syndicates that captured the men’s team two decades ago. Will Saman and her girls succeed where the men failed, or will history repeat itself? “
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