Bard of Blood
About the Book
Delhi’s power circles are shocked to discover that ex-RAW chief Sadiq Sheikh has been murdered. Kabir Anand is settling into his new life as a professor of Shakespeare studies in Mumbai, when a call from the PMO thrusts him back into the world he is trying to forget. A brilliant agent who served under Sadiq Sheikh, Kabir was forced to leave RAW because of a disastrous mission in Balochistan in 2006-part of India’s covert support of the Baloch rebels. Kabir must now revisit those ghosts, avenge his mentor and face his deadliest enemies- Mullah Omar and the ISI-while racing against time to save his country.
A gripping thriller, researched with the assistance of the US and Indian intelligence agents, war correspondents and crime writer S. Hussain Zaidi.
Ghalib Danger
The first novel from Neeraj Pandey, Ghalib Danger takes us on a journey of the Mumbai Underworld in a fast-paced tale.
The chief protagonist of the book is a cocky young taxi driver in the city of Mumbai called Kamran Ali. Like most others in the city, he dreams of making it big some day. But his life takes a turn for the worse when by accident, he saves the life of an underworld don Mirza. He is indebted to Kamran for his timely intervention and as an act of gratitude, decides to take him under his wings. Kamran’s life transforms completely as he embraces guns and bullets. He gets drawn into the don’s ugly and murky world of cops and rival gangsters.
Kamran inherits the don’s empire eventually and along with it, he also inherits one of his traits. This trait happens to be the don’s belief that the solution to every problem lies in Ghalib’s poetry. Kamran finds great solace in poetry and Ghalib’s work keeps him from going insane. Because of this, Kamran gets a new nickname. As he is rising to the top of the gang, he has cops, politicians and many others on tenterhooks. Soon, he becomes the city’s most-feared gangster with a poetic name, Ghalib Danger.
Neeraj Pandey is a critically-acclaimed Indian director. His film A Wednesday won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director. He also won a lot of praise for his film, Special 26, which he directed in 2013. He hails from a Brahmin Bihari family and grew up in Kolkata. In 2013, he launched his first book, Ghalib Danger.
Zero Day
It is their first brush with cyberterrorism: a zero-day vulnerability in the Indian government’s system that could bring the country to its knees. Racing against time and investigating a case unlike any other, in Zero Day, Mirza and Vikrant face the most dangerous mission of their lives.