Devi, The Bandit Queen

The long-awaited updated version of the first book about the incredible brutal life and eventual murder of Phoolan Devi, the self-styled Bandit Queen, who roamed the ravines of India in the early 1980's, her exploits becoming notorious with the massacre of 24 villagers coincidentally on St Valentine's Day. This is Phoolan's true story, based on interviews with her in prison shortly after her capture, and with the people who crossed her path, leading up to her assassination in 2001.