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In this interview, S. Hussain Zaidi tells us about his new book, Dawood’s Mentor, which is about Khalid Khan Bachcha, the man who taught Dawood Ibrahim the tricks of the trade. Zaidi also tells us about the time when he interviewed Dawood Ibrahim, got kidnapped in Iraq and whether there still is a nexus between Bollywood and the mafia. His previous books are Black Friday: The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts (2002), Mafia Queens of Mumbai (2011), Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia (2012), Headley and I (2012), Byculla to Bangkok (2014), My Name is Abu Salem (2014), Mumbai Avengers (2015), Dangerous Minds (2017) and Eleventh Hour (2018).