The Assassin's SongM. G. Vassanjis magnificent new novel provides further proof of his unique, wide ranging and profound genius. The Assassins Song is a shining study of the conflict between ancient loyalties and modern desires, a conflict that creates turmoil the world over and it is at once an intimate portrait of one mans painful struggle to hold the earthly and the spiritual in balance. In The Assassins Song , Karsan Dargawalla tells the story of the medieval Sufi