Friday 30 May 2014

Book review: Anti – Social Network by Piyush Jhaa

Piyush Jha has come up again with his third novel  "Anti Social Network ", after Mumbaistan: 3 Explosive Crime Thrillers and Compass Box Killer and all his three books have been published by Rupa Publications. The book, Anti – Social Network: An Inspector Virkar Crime Thriller once again features inspector Virkar, who is now a popular protagonist amongst readers of crime-thrillers. This yet another product by Rupa Publications is an action cum crime thriller. The book enigmatic and while reading you will never encounter a dull moment in its narration and the book has been dedicated to his wife Priynka for tenderly pushing him along. 

 Blurb:

“The book describes the situation when college students across Mumbai are assassinated and slaughtered one after another in ghastly ways, Inspector Virkar from the Crime Branch is called in to take the hold of the situation. While the inspector investigates, he comes across and bumps into a callous bunch of young hooligans, who are techno-savvy wrongdoers and use social networking sites along with the Internet for blackmailing and sextortion. Read this book to solve the mystery of how these two cases linked? Find out who is the mastermind behind these murders?


As the case grows cloudy with various things that surrounds the situation, the computer-challenged Virkar discovers himself out of his profundity, hounding the killer who in the book has always seemed to be one step ahead, and a group that soon trains its highlights on him. The inspector races against the time to publicly blow the whistle on the gang as to expose the culprit and to find the slaughterer prior to ruining his reputation forever. Covered with suspense and layered with grit, Anti-Social Network brings to you Inspector Virkar’s hard-hitting case yet.”

The cover page says that this is an Inspector Virkar crime thriller.It says that it is a Mumbaistan series.This sets the pace of the book. The novel is a fast paced thriller which can be read in just one go! A fulsome  paisa vasool at just  the price of Rs.195  



Piyush Jha is an acclaimed film director and ad filmmaker. A student political leader at the university, he pursued a career in advertising management later acquiring an MBA degree. Later, he switched tracks, first to make commercials for some of the country’s largest brands, and then write and direct feature films. His films include Chalo America, King of Bollywood and Sikandar. He lives in his beloved Mumbai, where he can often be found walking the streets that inspire his stories.

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