Bankerupt

A sure-shot thriller makes you turn pages till you reach the very end. You in fact cannot stop reading and thats what Bankerupt by Ravi Subramanian does to you. He makes you want to reach the end way before you have reached the middle because as a reader you cannot wait to know what happens next. Thats the true test of a thriller and this time this isnt a banking one.

There are a lot of sub-plots running through, Bankerupt. From a financial hoax to a cryptic clue the novel spans from the US of A to India to Australia. There is a murder but obviously. Ravi Subramanians writing style is impeccable keeping in mind short chapters to generate interest to the plot which is racy and suspenseful at almost every turn of the page. Bankerupt is a quick read. The kind that you can finish on a train journey and be on the edge of your seat at that.

Description

A university is an institution for higher education and research. It can also be a place where academic brilliance leads to overinflated egos, bitter politics and finally, murder. Cirisha Narayanan, a professor who has risen meteorically, stumbles upon a cryptic message. Aditya Raisinghania, her banker husband, sets up a highly innovative financial hoax. Her profiteering father harvests Australias largest bird the emu in India. The US elections are on and the debate on gun control has reached a fever pitch. Set in Mumbai, Coimbatore and Boston, Ravi Subramanian creates an impeccably researched world where everyone has a motive to kill. Nothing is as it seems in this cunningly vicious thriller where the plot turns on a dime.