About the book
The novel is a work of crime fiction. Arjun, a young man has lot of anguish about the gruesome murders of the innocents happening almost every day. The two most heinous crimes that shook him tremendously and almost changed his life were; A brutal gang rape and killing of Maya, a hapless girl in a night bus; and the mob-lynching of two teenage brothers in Pakistan. Inadequate punishments in both cases leave him exasperated. While on a religious trip to Gaumukh glacier in Uttarakhand, he is led to a supernatural world, amidst a conclave of restless loitering spirits of the slain victims of some of the grave crimes. There, he meets a sage who has some mystical connection with the three worlds; the divine, the living and the dead. He confers the power of invisibility upon Arjun, to deliver the justice. Arjun settles the scores with the perpetrators of both the crimes. Besides, he also rescues a child from a kidnapper, a young girl facing death sentence at the hands of the chauvinist clerics, many children from the traffickers, slavery and abuse using the divine power.
About the Author
The author is a senior civil servant working in the central government. Presently, he is working in Ambala, Haryana. His academic background is in the Biological Sciences and he is also an MBA from PAU, Ludhiana, Punjab. He joined civil services in 1998. Blessed with a keen sense of social justice, heart-felt empathy and profound insights into Human Psychology, the author is distinctive in his approach in writing about the unspeakable inhumane sufferings undergone by the victims of bone-chilling crimes. The writer is also an armchair psychologist and a fierce advocate of justice. He enjoys Bollywood music, films noirs and traditional Punjabi cuisine.
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