Talaash-Istanbul is spread out over Europe and Asia, Abnaybasforus cuts it into two parts which are linked with four bridges across the river . The narrator is a hired detective who must find the lost husband of his client, going to a restaurant meaty cheese balls a delicacy of peter lui hotel with hot coffee, looking around the glass ceilings, glass walls glass floors through which fishes could be seen underneath he remebers peter luis was a french writer who had written two books there after whose name the hotel was famous, later the detective is successfully able to connect all the missing clues together --his client was not related to the missing man in any way, they were after him as he had accidently discovered he as a salesman was being used to deliver cerystaline heroine in pastry packets marked with black or pink ribbons for comapnies and individuals