An explosion shatters a peaceful evening at the India Gate lawns in New Delhi.

In London, two Muslim clerics are murdered. Police discover the tortured body of a prominent geologist in Goa.

Two women, on holiday in Mumbai, are kidnapped. Who is the mastermind behind these seemingly unrelated incidents, and what is their ultimate agenda?

Rudra, along with Vijay, agents of an unnamed, high-risk, high-security, Indian agency, race from Mumbai to Cairo and beyond in an exhilarating hunt for truth and justice.

Will the huntsmen pin down their prey?

Or will their quest come to an explosive end?

About the Author:Born in 1951, Bappaditya Chakravarty was educated at Delhi University and at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has been an educationist, an executive in the public and private sectors, as well as a consultant, and returned to India in 2020 after spending nearly two decades in various countries. He has written four books in English, Samudragupta – The Making of an Emperor, which was released at the Dhaka LitFest (2016), two thrillers The Goa Connection (2013) and Swordplay (2023) and an immersive travel-fiction Two Wanderers (2023). He has published three fictional books in Bengali. He has also written a number of essays, articles and short stories in Bengali, published in reputed journals and magazines.

He is married to a Danish diplomat and currently lives in Delhi and Kyrgyzstan.