The Hypebeast
by Adnan Khan
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Pub Date 20 May 2025 | Archive Date 31 Mar 2025
Dundurn Press | Rare Machines
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Description
Hamid Shaikh is a small-time crook in the big city, hoping that one of his cons will lead to riches. Tax fraud, telemarketing tricks, government scams. Whatever it takes. When he’s not working the phones hustling fake promises, he dreams of a move that will finally announce his arrival.
When his girlfriend Natalie Mendoza vanishes, Hamid finds himself pulled into the orbit of former Guantanamo Bay detainee turned social-media imam Abdul Mohammad. On the surface, Abdul’s organization is virtuous: they are helping other detainees rehabilitate to life outside the prison. But as Hamid dives deeper into Abdul’s nebulous and luxurious world, he finds a confusing mix of religious zeal and cynical self-advancement. With his connection to the imam deepening, Hamid must decide just how far into darkness he can go before losing sight of himself.
Advance Praise
Praise for There Has to Be a Knife by Adnan Khan:
"An entertaining page-turner, at once a thriller and an intersectional, transgressive work of fiction that makes no compromises in its alternating nihilism and tenderness." — Quill and Quire
"A powerful look at violence, loss, racism, and toxic masculinity." —Book Riot
"Khan writes with a noir sensibility, equal parts violence and tenderness." — The Globe and Mail
"A sharp dissection of how grief -- wrongly channelled and enflamed by grievance -- can fuel destructive masculine behaviour, inciting flailing verbal aggression on the internet and in everyday life." — The Walrus
"A searing meditation on isolation and grief in the modern world. There Has to Be A Knife is a striking debut." — Iain Reid, author of Foe and I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781459754478 |
| PRICE | US$19.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 408 |
