POUND OF FLESH

POUND OF FLESH

Summary on the back cover of the thriller POUND OF FLESH by Mukul Deva, W (Westland Ltd)/IBD, ₹350 (paperback):

"Minutes after landing at Delhi airport, Pamela Stewart, a beautiful young American lawyer, vanishes without a trace.

"Retired Inspector General of Police [IGP] Ravinder Singh Gill knows that he has only hours to track down and recover the missing girl, his daughter Jasmine's college-mate and friend. As he digs deeper he realizes that Pamela is only one of scores of young girls who have gone missing. Not one of them has been recovered alive. And those found have had their organs harvested.

"The search for Pamela turns even more vicious and murkier as the finger of suspicion swings towards Harpal Singh, a powerful political broker with a shady fast, and also the father of Dr. Mandeep, a surgeon, recently betrothed to Jasmine.

"Spearheading Harpal's operation is the mercurial Santosh Kumar aka SK aka The Hammer, a ruthless enforcer [?] who hates Ravinder. The battle becomes intensely personal for The Hammer when he realizes that Pamela is the friend of Ravinder's daughter.

"Torn between rescuing Pamela, finding the truth and protecting Jasmine's happiness, Ravinder battles alone.

"Could Harpal be the man behind this deadly gang of human traffickers and organ traders? Could Mandeep, his future son-in-law, be the surgeon who is cutting up these missing girls and harvesting their organs? And why is Chetan, the police officer investigating the case, covering up the facts?

"Yet again, India's literary storm trooper [?] Mukul Deva [a very experienced anti-insurgency operator; has wriiten fiction on Emperor Aurangzeb) keeps you turning pages late into the night."

    DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to the victims and families of human trafficking and illegal organ harvesting.

If there is a God she (or he) shall surely strike down those that inflict this unspeakable horror on their fellow humans. However, till that happens, each one of us is responsible to do what we can to curb this menace.

[Cf. Shylock the Jew in court to "judge" Portia (in male attire) in "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" by "William Shakespeare" (pen name of a female writer?). - G]