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Two years ago, Black Tulip, a barbaric gang surfaced on the crime map — their forte — looting artefacts from the ancient temples of India. The case has been assigned to CBI officer Akshan Rathore, a highly decorated officer.
Akshan's informers sniff out valuable information: Black Tulip Gang would strike next at the Hanuman Temple of Amanapore.
The gang is after the ‘cursed’ Blue Diamond of Amanapore. Akshan is quick to beef up security at the temple with state-of-the-art technology.
On the eve of the festival, the blue diamond necklace is transported under tight security from the bank vault to the temple.
Akshan receives a Whatsapp message, challenging the inspector to catch them if he can. A flustered Akshan rushes to the temple and surprisingly finds everything to be normal and the necklace is gleaming on Hanuman’s chest.
A closer look reveals that what he sees on the Lord is a mere illusion. It will be a month before anyone realizes that the necklace is missing and Akshan has one month to hunt them down. The clock is ticking.
The chase takes him to Mumbai and then into the jungles of Jharkhand but Akshan fails to secure the necklace.
It’s the final day of the festival, a distraught Akshan is at the temple awaiting the dire consequences of his failure. The loss of the necklace would soon be revealed and it could lead to riots at the temple and maybe the whole country. Akshan would be blamed for it unless…
Sunil Menon
Sunil Menon is a 1972 born B.E Graduate from Bombay University. After seventeen years of being caught up in the rat-race, he called it quits. He renounced his career in IT, left Dubai and landed in Bangalore to focus inward.
A personal tragedy led to incessant thoughts, which led him to reflect on the meaning of life and what followed thereafter was his first book – MOH – The Illusions of Life.
The author considers his first book as a stepping stone into the literati world. And with Doctor Monk, his second book, the author ventured into the limitless world of fiction writing. The art of writing without boundaries and yet there were certain boundaries to be maintained for the story to make sense and grip the reader.
Doctor Monk was appreciated by all those who read it and the embedded message was well received. However, the author is yet unknown in the literati world, were books are churned by the dime and dozen and therefore the response to Doctor Monk has been cold. Someday it may end up on book shelves.
The Blue Diamond of Amanapore is the third book by the author and is a completely different genre to Doctor Monk. The story is an out-and-out suspense action thriller.
The author is a passionate photographer with about two thousand stock images uploaded on a popular stock image website. His images are sold all around the world through this stock site. Being a foodie to the core, he loves cooking up gourmet treats.
Sunil lives with his nine-year-old son Akshan in Bangalore.
