ASHOKA'S NINTH MANDALA: A SECRET BURIED IN EMPIRE - Softcover

AJAYAN, AKHIL

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798287247485

Verlag: Independently published, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

In 2026 Kolkata, a cremation pyre hides a murder. Karthik Bose, a tenacious 32-year-old journalist, uncovers a spiral burn mark—the Ashokan brand—on his grandfather Arvind’s wrist, a retired RAW agent silenced by secrets. A cryptic journal, etched with Sanskrit ciphers and maps to a 1947 Yangon safehouse, propels Karthik into a deadly chase for Mandala IX, a fabled relic of Emperor Ashoka’s Nine Unknown Men, guarding knowledge too perilous for the world. This Ninth Mandala, a recursive model predicting societal collapse, pulses beneath India’s bloodiest riots, wielded by the shadowy Meridian Circle—a cabal of spies, corporates, and traitors, including Karthik’s uncle Vikram.
From monsoon-drenched ghats to Odisha’s jungles, Delhi’s power corridors to the Nicobar Trench’s eerie signal, Karthik battles drones, snipers, and a scarred killer, unraveling Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s lost quest and India’s suppressed history. As spirals—graffiti, chants, global X posts—spread, a new cycle, Mandala X, emerges, threatening time itself. In a land where truth is a weapon, Karthik must guard it—or burn in its spiral.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798287247485
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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