I am reading Dongri to Dubai by S. Hussain Zaidi.
Growing up in Mumbai in the 1980s/90s, I remember reading news stories about the Mumbai gang wars.
This book covers that in great detail and as such qualifies as a genuine history book.
And yet, it reads like a potboiler. It is essentially unputdownable.
10/10
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
I really enjoyed this one. I got turned on to it by a character in a John le Carré novel who was reading it. It’s a page turner. Herod was certainly a mob boss villain of epic proportions.