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About The Book 

A young Indian UN officer and a brilliant Chinese translator race through a 24-hour nightmare in New York City to stop a bioterror attack engineered in Xinjiang.

Bhaarath Ibhan, a Foreign Service officer assigned to the United Nations, never expected his routine diplomatic posting to collide with the deadliest plot since 9/11. When a mysterious biochemist from Xinjiang, Zhànxīn, vanishes in Manhattan—leaving behind coded notes, Masonic symbols, and a warning—the city spirals toward an attack designed to cripple the world in twenty-four hours.

To decode Zhànxīn’s clues, Bhaarath must rely on Zhou Zhìyuǎn, a sharp-witted Chinese translator and quiet member of the Order of the Eastern Star, whose knowledge of hidden networks inside the UN runs deeper than she admits. Together, they uncover links between rogue intelligence handlers, shadow diplomacy channels, and a trail of Masonic lodges stretching from Queens to Midtown.

As tensions between India, China, and the United States reach a boiling point, a new-age biological weapon—far more insidious than COVID-19—is poised to erupt in the heart of New York City. With the clock ticking, Bhaarath must navigate power games, encrypted archives, and a conspiracy decades in the making.

What unfolds is a relentless race across NYC, its underground corridors, and symbolic landmarks, where every clue is a breadcrumb and every hour closes another door. One slip, and the world’s most powerful city will fall.

For fans of Tom Clancy’s realism, Daniel Silva’s tradecraft, and Dan Brown’s symbolic puzzles, this is a 24-hour thriller with the world on the line.

About The Author

I write stories across different genres, but they are connected by a single curiosity — how systems, beliefs, and hidden structures shape individual lives.
Whether set inside global institutions, mythic worlds, or intimate acts of crime, my work explores the quiet cost of power and the human consequences that follow.
This novel opens a series of stories that examine power, systems, and the people caught inside them. It is written for readers who enjoy stories that linger beyond the final page.