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If you play out of your depth, and you don't pack what it takes to get out of a hole, you just sign up on what's headed your way.
MM is a thrill-seeker, a disgraced, self-destructive ex-army cadet with a taste for hard drugs and kinky sex, and a shrewd reporter who will do anything to get a story. His connections reach deep into the heart of India's unsavoury political establishment, and into the Army, his current beat where his bravery earns the trust and admiration of even more unsavoury sources.
Following Special Forces on a series of deadly missions on the Kashmiri border, MM confirms his suspicion that rogue band of officers is smuggling drugs and captured weapons out of India's jungle frontier. When a raid on an enemy bunker uncovers an enourmous cache of arms and high-grade heroin, the commander in charge taps MM to unload the goods, and he finds himself enmeshed in an international net of gun-running, gang warfare, and double-dealing more dangerous than anything he's undertaken so far.
Cynical, knowing, highly capable, and deeply motivated, MM is an intriguing new postmodern hero. A first novel by one of India's most investigative reporters, Bunker 13 is world-class suspense of an entirely new kind.
'Bunker 13 heralds the arrival of a totally different direction for Indian fiction...'
'A funky and fiercely contemporary novel of high-tech weaponry and hedonism which should be a summer sensation.'
—The Bookseller
'A vividly created milieu is the key factor in the success of this arresting literary thriller.'
—Publishing News
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