wheels within wheels

There is often talk of wheels within wheels in Pakistan; intricate power dynamics and moves, alliances and grudges.

As with nearly everything he wrote, there’s a sense of wheels within wheels.

“By my first birthday she could no longer walk without the aid of a stick and by my second she could no longer walk at all,” Ms. Murphy wrote in her 1979 memoir, “Wheels Within Wheels.”

At first glance a standard crime story, the novel is “a more piercing tale of investigation, one revealing how the mind drives on its own ‘wheels within wheels,’” wrote our reviewer.

“There are so many wheels within wheels right now. I have never seen anything like it.”