The Caretaker

“The Caretaker is a powerhouse tale, a literary thriller that’s sharply observed and deeply felt. A.X. Ahmad is a remarkable new talent, and his hero, Ranjit Singh, takes his place beside Arkady Renko as a man trapped between the system and his own moral imperatives. The Caretaker is a surprising, gripping love story that manages to be both timely and timeless, and will be a novel people read for years to come. --Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Buried Secrets and Paranoia

“The Caretaker” isn’t just a solid thriller, it’s a wonderful novel about clashing cultures and painful histories, held together by Ahmad’s crisp writing and his wonderful character of Ranjit Singh. Shades of Martiz Cruz Smith here, and echoes of Graham Greene. Bravo, Amin Ahmad.” -- T. Jefferson Parker, author of The Jaguar and The Border Lords

“Told with propulsive narrative drive, The Caretaker weaves a compelling story, beguiling characters, and two exotic locales–India and Martha's Vineyard–into a suspenseful whole. A wonderful debut.” –Richard North Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"The Caretaker is a killer book and Amin Ahmad's Ranjit Singh is a compelling man of action. Ahmad takes his readers on a careening ride from the glacial battlefields of South Asia to the supposedly safer digs of Martha's Vineyard. America may not be ready for a run-and-gun Sikh investigator, but we need him now." –Ed Lin, author of One Red Bastard

“Though Amin Ahmad's The Caretaker is a tightly wound thriller, it is equally concerned with themes of insiders and outsiders, race, culture and class. From protagonist Ranjit Singh, a Sikh who once held a position of status in the Indian Army and is now a disgraced, reluctant refuge in the US, to the African American Senator who came up from poverty to become a powerful and influential leader, to the Senator's wife, from a family of longtime Vineyard residents that lost nearly everything they'd once held, Ahmad portrays a modern American reality where privilege is not predictable and identity is formed in a crucible of contradictions. If this sounds dry and didactic, let me assure you that The Caretaker is anything but—Ahmad has crafted a story that is refreshing, sexy and heart-felt. I very much hope that this is not the last we'll see of Ranjit Singh, an original, complex hero for an uncertain, complicated time.”— Lisa Brackmann, New York Times bestselling author of Rock Paper Tiger

"The Caretaker is a promising debut from A. X. Ahmad with a unique perspective and compelling hero, a novel that shines fresh and welcome light on our complex world." —James Grady, author of Six Days of the Condor

"This first novel combines the taut pacing of a thriller with the lush, lyrical writing of Jhumpa Lahiri." —Jenna Blum, New York Times Bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers