A cardboard box is found on a shelf in a London library where a copy of the Mahabharata should have been. When the mystified librarian opens it, she screams and falls unconscious to the floor.An elite group that calls itself the Lashkar-e-Talatashar has scattered around the globe, the fate of its members curiously resembling that of Christ and his Apostles. Their agenda is Armageddon.In the labyrinthine recesses of the Vatican, a beautiful assassin swears she will eliminate...

Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who performed countless divine miracles for the good of mankind ... Humanity was assured that he would return in a new avatar when the world needed him in the eventual Dark Age-Kaliyug. In modern times, a poor little boy grows up believing that he is that final avatar. Except, the boy is a serial killer.In this heart-stopping tale, the arrival of a murderer who executes his gruesome and brilliantly thought...

720 CE. A fleet of boats dock at the port of Sanjan in Gujarat. They carry eighteen thousand frightened souls fleeing the cruelty of Iran's Umayyad Caliphate. Chanting prayers in what sounds like Sanskrit, the high priest consecrates a sacred fire to thank their god, Ahura Mazda, for leading them to a new home and to hope. A mysterious substance is used to spark the flame, but few know of its miraculous provenance.Centuries later, Parsi scientist Jim Dastoor is abducted from his Se...

The year is 340 BC. A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father. Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals, he becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat and succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of that demigod, Alexander the Great. Pitting the weak edges of both forces against each other, he pulls off a wicked and astonishing victory and succeeds in installing ...

The lives of Arvind Bagadia, a young opportunistic businessman, and Arbaaz Sheikh, a feared underworld gangster, are accidentally intertwined, as they ricochet off one another in sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, reduced to their basest instincts in their attempts to best the other.As Arvind's business ventures become increasingly more ambitious, they also become shadowy, and, similarly, Arbaaz's rise in the underworld comes at a high cost to ...

A baffling crime. A rundown ex-cop. But he's their best bet.A city on edgeA ruthless serial killer stalks the streets of Mumbai, leaving behind a gruesome trail of tortured victims. As the city reels in terror, the authorities grapple with a vital question: What links these seemingly random targets?A dogged investigatorEnter Prakash Kadam, once a decorated cop but now an angry, bitter wreck of a man haunted ...

The trajectories of Arvind and Arbaaz, both 'businessmen' of a kind whose lives are unwillingly intertwined, ricochet off one another while they play out their sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, all the while breaking every rule in the book.Both are unaware that what they seek and fight over is the very obstacle in realising an ancient secret that dates back to a time long forgotten.And yet, at the heart of it all, there lies tenderness...

""Sanghi's flair lies in blurring the boundaries between myth and reality... a notable and thought-provoking work in contemporary Indian fiction.""-THE TRIBUNE""...seamlessly weaves mythology with cutting-edge science, historical memory with contemporary geopolitics.""***-***THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS""A bold, globe-trotting thriller that fuses mythology, science, and geopolitics into an electrifying narrat...

A killer on the prowlMumbai is rocked by a series of ritualistic murders: the victims are found with their eyes gouged out, their pain meticulously orchestrated before their death. The killer's signature is chilling, the motive mysterious, the pattern invisible-anyone could be next.A relentless detectiveAs the bodies pile up, a desperate police force turns to former Mumbai Police legend Prakash Kadam, dragging him back from retireme...

A Pallava prince travels to Cambodia to be crowned king, carrying with him secrets that will be the cause of great wars many centuries later.A Buddhist monk in ancient China treks south to India, searching for the missing pieces of a puzzle that could make his emperor all-powerful.A Neolithic tribe fights to preserve their sacred knowledge, oblivious to the war drums on the Indo-China border.Meanwhile, far away in the temple town of Kanchipuram, a reclusive scientis...

Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who brought about innumerable miracles for the good of mankind. Humanity despaired of its fate if the Blue God were to die but was reassured that he would return in a fresh avatar when needed in the eventual Dark Age-the Kaliyug.In modern times, a poor little rich boy grows up believing that he is that final avatar.Only, he is a serial killer.In this heart-stopping tale, the arrival of a mu...

From the world’s #1 bestselling author, when Jack Morgan opens a branch of Private in Mumbai, a mysterious killer threatens to destroy the agency—and the city—from the inside out.When Jack Morgan opens the Mumbai branch of Private, the world's most elite detective agency, he hands the reins to top agent Santosh Wagh. Now, in this teeming metropolis of over thirteen million people where the guilty have everywhere to hide, Santosh goes on the hunt for one elusive kil...