Shadow Throne

Key Features

• Stunning thriller of espionage and counterespionage from a debut writer
• A page-turner about rogue elements in India's RAW and Pakistan's ISI
• Begins with a murder at the Qutub Minar, setting the story right in the heart of Delhi
• Narrative races across India, Pakistan and Afghanistan-to prevent nuclear destruction
• Chandra, Hassan and Meenakshi emerge as not just sleuths but unlikely heroes
• Taut writing that is chillingly believable

About the Book: The Shadow Throne

The Shadow Throne displays taut writing and nail-biting suspense in a debut that is chillingly believable. Will this unlikely trio succeed in navigating the treacherous, shadowy politics of India and Pakistan?

A mysterious murder at the Qutub Minar triggers a call to ace journalist Chandrasekhar from his cop acquaintance, Inspector Syed Ali Hassan. The victim is unlike anyone Chandra has ever seen: a white Caucasian male who has all the looks of a throwback to Greek antiquity. Soon after, Hassan calls in to report the case has been taken away from him-in all likelihood by RAW-the Research & Analysis Wing, the uber-agency of Indian intelligence.

What began as a murder enquiry soon morphs into a deadly game of hide-and-seek within the shadowy world of Pakistan's ISI and India's RAW; and Chandra, his friend history professor Meenakshi Pirzada and Hassan find themselves in a race against time to avert a sub-continental nuclear holocaust. As the action moves to its hair-raising climax among the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan, Chandra must face up to the fact that Inspector Hassan is not all that he seems ....

About the Author: Aroon Raman

Aroon Raman is Managing Director, Raman Fibre Science Pvt. Ltd. He is a regular contributor to The Hindu and has also contributed occasionally to Outlook magazine and the Times of India on business issues.