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Patang

Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

I hate the rain...I hate it, hate it, hate it. But the rain can't stop me. No one can…I'll go out and play tonight. I will kill only four. No more, no less. Just four.' 

In the midst of one of the worst monsoons in Mumbai, a man is found brutally murdered, his body posed like a kite on the tallest cell tower in the city. As one corpse after another turns up in the unlikeliest of places, each gruesomely killed and carefully arranged in a grotesque manner, the Mumbai Police realize they have more on their hands than they can deal with. Enter Chandrakant Rathod, a maverick investigator the police turn to in times of need, who plays by his own rules and lives for the thrill of the chase.

Pitting his sharp instincts against the machinations of the sadistic, ruthless killer, the detective succeeds in nabbing the psychopath and putting him behind bars.

Then, three months later, the killings begin again.

A deadly game is afoot - a game that will challenge Rathod to the utmost, for it is a game that he cannot hope to win...

  • Classification : Thriller, Crime & Mystery
  • Pub Date : APR 15, 2016
  • Imprint : Hachette India
  • Page Extent : 256
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9789351950356
  • Price : INR 499
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Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

 

Bhaskar Chattopadhyay is the author of three novels, Patang, Penumbra and Here Falls the Shadow. He has also written and edited a bestselling anthology of short stories, 14: Stories That Inspired Satyajit Ray, and has translated the works of several Bengali writers such as Rabindranath Tagore, Rajshekhar Basu, Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, Premendra Mitra, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Hasan Azizul Haque, Narendra Nath Mitra, among others. He has also novelized Satyajit Ray’s legendary 1966 film Nayak.

Bhaskar lives in Bengaluru with his wife, Sweta, and sons Ishaan and Emon. His twitter handle is @bhaskey.

 

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