A chronicle by one of India's leading spymasters... a page out of a real-life situation. M.K. Narayanan, former NSA and DIB.
From the former head of India's external intelligence agency, in his first work of fiction It is the early 1990s and Kashmir has become a killing field. Ranjit Soni runs intelligence operations in Srinagar during the bloodiest years of the insurgency. His job is to turn militants into sources, map terror networks and prevent the Valley from burning completely. He is good at his work and soon sees success.
There is Qureshi, the jolly middle-aged informant who drinks Old Monk and whispers secrets; Imran, the militant commander who returns from Pakistan promising peace; Major Ali, the ISI operative playing both sides; and Rehana, whose affair with Ranjit crosses every fault line that exists in the divided Valley.
As the bodies accumulate, Ranjit realizes a terrible truth: he is not preventing violence; he is fuelling it.
A morally complex novel about espionage, Our Kind of Games is a devastating portrait of politics, betrayal and the impossible equations of intelligence work in a place where everyone plays the game and no one wins.
About the Author
A.S. Dulat served as the head of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), India's external intelligence agency, and upon retirement joined Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee's Prime Minister's Office (PMO), where his job was to 'monitor, manage and direct' the Indian government's peace initiative in Kashmir.
Dulat joined the Indian Police Service in 1965, and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in 1969, where he served for almost thirty years. At the IB, he headed the Kashmir Group during the turbulent 1990s until he joined and headed R&AW. His first book, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years, was published in 2015. He co-authored two books with former Pakistan intelligence chief Lt. Gen. Asad Durrani The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace (with Aditya Sinha) in 2018, and Covert: The Psychology of War and Peace (with Neil K. Aggarwal) in 2024. Dulat's memoir, A Life in the Shadows, was published to acclaim in 2022, and a book on his relationship with Farooq Abdullah, The Chief Minister and the Spy, w
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