City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai

Author:Ramita Navai [Navai, Ramita]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780297869504
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2014-05-07T22:00:00+00:00

As he entered the city, Kambiz rang and told him to drive to a road off Pirouzi Street, in the east of town. When Bijan arrived, Kambiz’s boys were waiting on a motorbike. One of them was an ex-soldier who also moonlighted doing night shifts as armed security for a crime syndicate that sold drugs under a motorway flyover in north Tehran. They would act as lookouts and protection as the dealers traded on a lay-by. It was a busy spot where two motorways converged, so there was a constant stream of customers; two o’clock in the morning was peak time.

When Kambiz’s boys saw Bijan, they walked up to a small, two-storey house and knocked on the front door. The dentist opened it. They dragged him onto the street and started beating him. They broke both the dentist’s arms and knocked out four of his teeth. Bijan watched from his car, all his nervous tension melting away. On his drive home, he called his wife and told her to stop cooking and leave the kids with his mother; tonight he was taking her for supper to Café Azeri on Vali Asr.

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