Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.2
Points
29.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
157013
Points per Word
0.000185
Description
Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls, a political figure with a wide-ranging past, is murdered in broad daylight on his illegitimate daughter's doorstep, slaughtered by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a mysterious man who calls himself Shalimar the Clown.