Bunker 13

'A remarkable debut, a fire breathing work of political satire . . . Imagine Catch 22 rewritten by Hunter S. Thompson [and] set in an unapologetically modern India.' Guardian War, murder, drug smuggling and gun-running - when you are a disgraced and hedonistic ex-army cadet who has reinvented himself as a shrewd reporter, how far will you be willing to go? With connections that run deep into the unsavoury heart of India's political establishment, Minty Mehta soon finds himself on the...
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'A remarkable debut, a fire breathing work of political satire . . . Imagine Catch 22 rewritten by Hunter S. Thompson [and] set in an unapologetically modern India.' Guardian War, murder, drug smuggling and gun-running - when you are a disgraced and hedonistic ex-army cadet who has reinvented himself as a shrewd reporter, how far will you be willing to go? With connections that run deep into the unsavoury heart of India's political establishment, Minty Mehta soon finds himself on the Kashmiri border following the Indian Special Forces and uncovering some sordid secrets. Deeply enmeshed in a dangerous game of double-dealing and betrayal, Minty Mehta is the postmodern anti-hero of Bunker 13, the debut novel from one of India's most famous investigative reporters, and a world class thriller of an entirely new kind. 'Bahal appears to relish the new lease of life fiction offers and his prose is influenced by the hard-bitten, women and alcohol-fuelled language of the modern thriller genre: Bunker 13 is inspiring.' Observer