Khalid is Pakistan’s first internationally recognized English language spy thriller author and has started a new level of conversation about Pakistan and its history with the Taliban and terror groups. Recently, I had the honour to sit down again with the man behind the bestselling Agency Rules series and got a little sneak peek about his upcoming novel.
Spy thriller is one of the hardest genres for authors, which is probably why there are only a handful of names that are mentioned. Pakistan has given its first real contribution to the genre with Agency Rules: Never an Easy Day at the Office and its author, Khalid Muhammad. Agency Rules is crafted from Pakistan’s history and shared it with a global audience to present Pakistan in a more accurate view than the Western media would like to depict to people. Mr Muhammad speaks to Weekend about his novel, the journey around the story and the characters that make up Pakistan’s first English language bestselling spy thriller.
Wasio Abbasi spoke to Khalid Muhammad in detail about Agency Rules, Pakistan and the drivers behind the spy thriller that is taking Pakistan by storm.
It is only befitting that Agency Rules is likened with John Le Carre’s espionage novels. However, even when it is compared to local fiction which focuses on Pakistan, it stands out as slightly more comprehensive. This is because the novel contextualises the country’s problems and does not strike an emotional chord through a peculiar stretch of the imagination.
Natasha Ahmad held a detailed conversation with Khalid Muhammad about his breakthrough spy thriller, Agency Rules – Never an Easy Day at the Office.
Khalid Muhammad got into a detailed conversation with the MythBehaving team about Agency Rules – Never an Easy Day at the Office, his background and the vision behind how the book came together.
