This is a riveting novel that travels through the highways and byways of corruption that plague our polity and society. It is told in simple, matter of fact language, with the most entertaining cynicism and humour. A deal is struck by a government agency for building a satellite and leasing it out to a foreign company. The deal progresses and transitions smoothly to the succeeding government. But a scandal erupts, and the government cancels the deal. This refreshingly irreverent novel goes into the details of how deals are made out of the taxpayers’ money, how they mature, how they get exposed, and then get buried at further cost to tax payers, which they will never know. The novel is a purely fictional account, reflected through a clever mesh of fiction and realism. A novel that reveals the real seamless conduits through which corruption flows unhindered, under the camouflage of law, rules and procedures. A fascinating story that keeps the reader spellbound. A gripping story of crass corruption by serving and retired top scientists of a fabled scientific institution, to the detriment of supreme national interest. The subsequent cover up by the police, under political command, would perturb any patriot. The writer spares no one-scientists, bureaucrats, politicians, big business, godmen, the bumbling police and the creaky adjudicatory mechanism. Part fact and part fiction, the novel is written in a delightful, racy style, with cynical humor. Unputdownable. - ML Sharma, IPS(Retd) Former special Director, CBI, and Commissioner, Central Information Commission