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The Bourne Objective
The high-action Jason Bourne thriller opens in the congested tech city of Bangalore with on-the-edge, supersonic action and swings across continents cutting a swathe through Asia and Africa. Russian Leonid Akradin, a CIA-trained assassin on the other side of the fence, is caught in a shootout and he just about manages to save his life. Facing mercenaries in Africa, Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer, Tracy Atherton. Her murder dredges up another long-forgotten death in Bourne's impaired memory — that of a Balinese woman who had entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring — an artifact of powerful significance that people have killed to obtain. Bourne is determined to find the owner of the ring and that leads him to Akradin. But a third person has been watching them.... A cinematic book with rich visuals of India and Asia. Nobody Does the
Right Thing The novel captures life in India's most densely-textured state — Bihar and its people — and, in a way, contemporary India. A young poet is killed by her lover, a politician, in Bihar. Soon afterward, across India in Bombay, an idealistic journalist is hired by a movie director to write a Bollywood screenplay about the murdered poet. Research for the script takes writer Binod back to Bihar, where he and his cousin Rabinder were raised. While Binod struggles to turn the poet’s murder into a steamy tale about small towns, desire and intrigue; Rabinder, booked for circulating pornography, sits in a Bihar jail cell, dreaming of a career in Bollywood film-making. Unlike his cousin, he is not burdened by ethical scruples. It is a riveting story of two cousins and their lives in rural Bihar.
Coorg 1878. Devi is born on the day of herons; and Muthavva knows that her daughter will be special. Beautiful and spirited, the little girl quickly becomes the object of adoration of her entire family. She befriends Devanna, a young boy whose mother has died of tragic circumstances; and they soon become inseparable. But the course of their lives changes forever when Devi meets Machu, the tiger killer, a hunter of great repute. Devi vows that she will marry Machu some day. This is a dramatic story of three-way love.
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THRILL,
money, Bihar and Ram... the bookcase this blistering summer weekend
will stimulate imagination. Here is the list of reads for this
weekend.
Tiger Hills
