Book Review: The Hunt for Kohinoor
About the book: The Hunt for Kohinoor’ is a spine-chilling ninety-six hour hunt through the world’s most dangerous terrain, where history collides with gunfire, for the elusive Kohinoor. Coming to your nearest bookstores this December 2013.
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar is the author of Earning the Laundry Stripes, The Long Walk Home, the national bestseller The Taj Conspiracy, and the thriller, The Hunt for Kohinoor.
Price : Rs. 295/-
It is a book about Mehrunissa Khosa – start to finish, and no one else. It is about how she is practically forced to help in the investigation, with grave risk to her own life and liberty, in a 96-hour long race that will determine the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands – as well as the lives of her loved ones. It is a book of an innocent citizen getting caught in the biggest international hot-spot – India/Pakistan, and how she is brutally used to further national interest.
The first half of the book lays the plot and the background of the entire scenario with characterisation of the supporting characters. This is not wasted, as it has been well done – not too much detail, not too little; just enough detail to enable you to understand each character and his or her motives. Each characters reasons for behaving as they did has been clearly spelled out, which actually gives a deep understanding of the scenario, enhancing your reading pleasure.
The scenes literally play out in front of your eyes, so vivid is the description and so rich but simple is the language used. This is what the combination of deep characterisation and effective narrative has attained.
The story is gripping in nature but it gets a bit draggy at various places and I felt like skipping a couple of paragraphs and pages in between.
Overall sometimes I felt its dragged but otherwise its quite engaging..and I say, worth a try.
Have you read Manreet’s The Taj Conspiracy or The Hunt for Kohinoor ?
P.S: Book sent for review. Honest opinion.