Reading This Will Not Give You Vertigo

The cover of the American edition of Last Man In Tower features a design ripped straight from Saul Bass’ Vertigo poster, but Aravind Adiga’s follow-up to the Man Booker Prize-winning The White Tiger doesn’t entirely match Alfred Hitchcock’s edge-of-your-seat thrills. Instead, it aims for a slow boil, like two tectonic plates building up enormous pressure to an earthquake.