The Sialkot Saga, Bharat Series 4 by Ashwin Sanghi [Paperback]

The lives of Arvind Bagadia, a young opportunistic businessman, and Arbaaz Sheikh, a feared underworld gangster, are accidentally intertwined, as they ricochet off one another in sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, reduced to their basest instincts in their attempts to best the other.

As Arvind's business ventures become increasingly more ambitious, they also become shadowy, and, similarly, Arbaaz's rise in the underworld comes at a high cost to him. In each man's pursuit to outwit the other, betrayals abound and danger lurks at every new turn, even as they grapple with personal tragedies and the volatile sociopolitical realities of a nation on the cusp of transformation.

Spanning multiple generations and set against the complex backdrop of societal churn from the 1950s to the early 2000s in India, this powerpacked thriller has master storyteller Ashwin Sanghi weaving together threads of the past and present, fact and fiction, history and mythology, business and politics, love and hatred to startling dramatic effect.

The Sialkot Saga, much like the other remarkable books in the Bharat Collection, revives ancient secrets, from Emperor Ashoka's Nine Unknown Men to the Rasayana formula-the secret to immortality-in a narrative that will keep you guessing till the very end.