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The gripping story of Delhi as seen through the contrasting lenses of the journalists who document it, the police officers who regulate it, and the underground criminals who fight to claim it. It traces a rookie reporter’s meteoric rise and the moral compromises he must face.

Author Name	Somnath Batabyal
ISBN	9789350294253
Year of Publication	2013
Pages	296
Language	ENGLISH
Binding	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins India

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ISBN: 9789350294253
Year Of Publication: 2013
Pages :296
Language : English
Binding : PEPARBACK
Publisher: HarperCollins India

OVERVIEW

When a small-town boy lands a trainee job at a major newspaper in Delhi, he is thrust straight onto the dangerous crime beat. Navigating a dark web of absolute corruption, trigger-happy cops, and a sudden, sensational kidnapping, he quickly learns that information is a deadly currency

Meet the Author

Somnath Batabyal worked as a hard-hitting crime journalist for several mainstream news outlets for years before shifting into academia and fiction writing. He holds a fellowship in environmental politics and media and works as a teacher at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He has also authored Making News in India

Book Summary

- The plot follows Abhishek Dutta, an ambitious rookie reporter at The Express, mentored by veteran editor Amir Akhtar. Abhishek climbs the professional ladder by securing sensational scoops, aided by relationships with encounter specialist DCP Uday Kumar and television executive Samir Saxena. However, when he gets entangled in a high-profile kidnapping masterminded by exiled gangster Babloo Shankar, Abhishek's luck runs out. He is forced to confront the dark underbelly of a dog-eat-dog world, discovering that in the crosshairs of politics and crime, common lives are mere pawns and survival demands a devastating personal price

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