Full-time police officer and one of the best Pakistani writers this generation, Omer Shahid Hamid is back to doing what he does best – writing.<\/p>\n
The novelist, who has written two best-sellers The Fix<\/strong> and The Party Worker,\u00a0<\/strong>revealed that he has set his sights to the world of spying and intelligence operations.<\/p>\n His current book, The Fix, is about match-fixing in the women’s cricket team. So why choose spy thriller as the next genre? Omer had a very insightful answer to this:<\/p>\n \u201cPakistani people have a strange psyche, very interested in cricket and conspiracy both.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He says that it was the combination of both these things that made him focus on the sordid world of match-fixing and apply it to a cricket team.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunately difficult to escape the problem of match-fixing, keeping in view the current socioeconomic and politicolegal situation,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n How does he even get the time to write a book, seeing as how a police officer is a gruelling job as it is. Omer reveals that he’s lucky to have gotten the time and the inspiration to work on these gripping stories every time he got a sabbatical.<\/p>\n \u201cThe police force has a lot of stories that circulate within its own circles and there is no way that these can get out unless they are told. So I told these stories in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n ALSO READ<\/p>\n The Great Chilgoza Robbery: Pine Nuts Worth Rs 12 Million Stolen in Wana<\/a><\/p>\n Omer has some exciting news to share regarding his work and Netflix.<\/p>\n He has made a name for himself byreading criminals, a fact that is reflected in his writing too. Just take a look at The Party Worker, <\/strong>which is based on a political party in Karachi that uses fear and intimidation to keep everyone in line. The main character in his book is a man who has commited heinous crimes, yet comes across as very humanized.<\/p>\n This aspect of humanizing the worst among us is why Netflix is interested in Omer’s works.<\/p>\n \u201cThis kind of genre is getting more traction and Netflix believes that Pakistan is a growing market. Especially, after the success of the\u00a0Sacred Games<\/em>, which is also based on a book by an Indian author (Vikram Chandra), the prospect seems to be good.\u201d<\/p>\n The author says that book of his books are being produced for a Netflix series. No time frame has been shared as to when they will debut right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Full-time police officer and one of the best Pakistani writers this generation, Omer Shahid Hamid is back to doing what he does best – writing. The novelist, who has written two best-sellers The Fix and The Party Worker,\u00a0revealed that he has set his sights to the world of spying and intelligence operations. His current book, The Fix, is about match-fixing […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":220139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1296,1298,2199],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-culture","9":"category-featured"},"wps_subtitle":"Are you looking forward to this?","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/omer-shahid-hamids-the-party-worker-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/omer-shahid-hamids-the-party-worker-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/omer-shahid-hamids-the-party-worker.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Lens Staff","categories_name":["Books","Culture","Featured"],"title_text":"Omer Shahid Hamid\u2019s Books Are Getting Turned into Netflix Series","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1296,1298,2199&exclude=238996","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238996"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=238996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/blockquote>\nOmer Shahid Hamid and Netflix<\/h3>\n