Rupee Millionaire by Joe Kovacs
Want to make a million? Be careful what you wish for...
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At 35, I was a struggling travel writer with five guides in print but not enough money to pay the rent. Then I met the Colonel in India. ‘You should try business, Joe!’ said the Colonel. ‘It would be a most spiritual experience!’ Spiritual or not, he was right. Five years on, I was the foremost wholesaler of hippy-Hindi glad rags in the UK. But at what cost? Along the way, I lost my hair, my house, my girlfriend, my Buddhist principles, and very nearly my sanity. The problem was my business partner, Spud. A borderline psycho with only one aim in mind – to become a rupee millionaire. With a million, he believed, people would forget he was a small, fat plumber from Peckham and women would flock to his cash and shag him senseless. |
But then, as he devolved into craziness and his dreams of world domination began to fall apart, he found a new reason for living.
He wanted me dead.
A delightful, humorous and addictive true-life story set in the shady rag-trade world of India.