Black Friday: The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts is a 2002 Indian non-fiction crime novel written by journalist Hussain Zaidi.

[4] Hussain Zaidi was a journalist and was doing a story as a free-lancer for Blitz about the torture on the accused of the 1993 Bombay bombings.

[5] In 1997, author Vikram Chandra was writing Sacred Games and wanted help from someone who "knew the underworld in and out" and approached Zaidi who gave him a lot of information in a year.

Zaidi started writing about the serial bomb blasts and started collecting statements, evidence, FIRs and interviews with Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon and finished it in four years.

[5] Black Friday was the film adaptation written and directed by Anurag Kashyap.