Saulat Mirza, the accused in the case,[2] was convicted and sentenced to death by the court, and was hanged in Machh jail on 12 May 2015.
The book became a bestseller in both India and Pakistan, was longlisted for the DSC South Asia Literature Prize,[5] and is being adapted for a feature film.
His second novel, The Spinner's Tale, was published in 2015 by Pan Macmillan India, and was loosely based on events and characters involved in the kidnapping of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Karachi in 2002.
[7] Shuja Nawaz, author of Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within, writes about Betrayal: “another riveting thriller ripped from the headlines by Omar Shahid Hamid.
The search for an Indian mole at the heart of Pakistan’s security structure takes you across the globe at breathless speed, combining a love story with the murky world of spycraft.