Andrew Ferreira

Andrew Ferreira is a young Goan gangster in Abdel Khader Khan’s circle, whose genial manner sits alongside his participation in its armed conflicts. Though he becomes part of Lin’s working crew and social company, Andrew remains less close to Lin than Farid does; his most consequential appearance also marks the divide between Lin and men who have crossed the boundary into killing.

Identity and Introduction

Andrew is described as young, genial, and talkative. When Salman Mustaan assigns him and Farid to work with Lin, Andrew is reluctant to leave the company of his young gangster friends. The difference matters to Lin’s experience of the two new associates: he and Andrew do not become close, while Farid spends most days and many nights with him and grows into a close friend.

Andrew later arrives with Farid, Sanjay, and Amir after a white Ambassador pulls up in front of Lin and the others. The group gathers conspicuously on a busy street, dressed in expensive, fashionable clothes and carrying themselves with the confidence of armed gangsters. Andrew is part of the crew’s public presence, though the account does not assign him a particular action during this meeting.

Work and Criminal Affiliations

Salman places Andrew with Lin after Johnny Cigar and Kishore reject Lin’s offers of work. Andrew’s assignment puts him alongside Lin and Farid, but their shared work does not produce the same intimacy as Lin’s friendship with Farid. Andrew remains associated with his younger gangster companions, and his reluctance to leave them distinguishes him from Farid’s sustained closeness to Lin.

Andrew is also included among the men who accompany Abdel Khader Khan, Nazeer, Khaled Ansari, and Farid to confront Jeetudada and his associates near the President Hotel. The party acts after one of Abdel Khader Khan’s men reports that Jeetudada, drunk in a hotel bar, has claimed to be the real Sapna and threatened to expose who planned and financed the Sapna killings. A shootout follows. The account places Andrew in the party but does not specify what he personally did in the confrontation or identify him as one of the men injured.

Violence and Contrast with Lin

Andrew’s clearest individual action is disclosed later, when Lin reflects on the men gathered around the table at the Taj Mahal Hotel. Lin recognizes that he is the only one present who has never killed a human being. Even Andrew, remembered as amiable and talkative, had fired all seven rounds of his Beretta at a cornered enemy, one of the Sapna killers.

That fact changes the meaning of Andrew’s affability without erasing it. He can be genial in company and still belong to a group whose members have used lethal violence. For Lin, the distinction is not merely a difference in temperament: it makes him feel separated from men with whom he shares loyalty, work, and friendship. Andrew thus stands as a specific counterexample to Lin’s belief that common bonds can overcome the moral distance between himself and the gang.