Before I
received a mail from Blogadda about “Private India” being up for review, for
the first time after ages I already knew about the book, after all I had been
waiting for it for a really long time, possibly since I first heard about the co-authorship.
A combined effort of James Patterson, one of the most popular thriller writers
of the world and author of more than 100 novels, and, Ashwin Sanghi, better
known as the Indian Dan Brown and author of one of my absolutely favourite
books ‘Chankaya’s Chant’, comes the latest addition of the Private Series,
“Private India.”
Before
beginning with the review, here’s the basic storyline from the back cover of
the book, after all I don’t think I’ll be able to provide a summary as enticing
as this one, just yet.
In Mumbai, seemingly unconnected
people are dying, strangled in a chilling ritual and with strange objects
carefully arranged with corpses.
For Santosh Wagh, head of Private
India, the Mumbai branch of the world’s finest investigation agency, it’s a
race against time to stop the killer striking again.
In a city of over thirteen million,
he would have his work cut out at the best of the times, but this case has him
battling Mumbai’s biggest gang lord and a godman who isn’t all he seems.
And then he discovers there may be an
even greater danger facing Private India. Hidden in the shadows is someone who
could destroy the whole organisation – along with thousands of innocent Mumbai
citizens.