The Bankster is another classic Ravi Subramanian novel, popularly called the "John Grisham" of Banking.
The plot is a money laundering conspiracy involving a major private bank of India and the mysterious deaths of its employees related to the scam. The author takes the story on a slow but steady note and managers to throw in few suspicious characters and interesting sub-plots. The writing is in good flow, given he is an Indian based writer and way he takes his story to grip the reader's attention is fabulous. I liked this book very much, having said that i also found few irregularities in the novel towards the climax. Especially where **Spoiler Alert** a covert team of cops from Ukraine takes out an professionally trained CIA agent in UAE. That was bit over the top for a seasoned reader like me. Except that the last revelation was brilliant and the whole books takes you on the journey of the shadowy world of corrupt Banking and under the radar money making business.
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By gita.madhu
on 13-Mar-2013
Have just begun it but already enjoying it. It does seem to bring to life a certain Thai ambience such as is to be found in Thai films.
This is the book for you if you do not like action, if you enjoy pages and pages of the protagonist’s introspection, if you enjoy a warped view of the “natives”, if you enjoyed Kipling and Maugham…
In short, The Godfather of Kathmandu is yet another product of a writer who has obviously attended classes of some sort on How to Write Novels, who believes in his 1000 words per day regime.
Charming at first, in a caricaturistic way, the novel begins to pall when page after page plods painfully through what looks like a Lobsang Rampa bizarro world.
Initially, the reading conjured shades of an Oxide Pang movie: the greenish hue, the odd shred of horror thrown in…
And here and there, there is, admittedly, something of some small worth: a description of a mall rings quite genuine, for example.
But, mostly, a book to give the miss!
Incubated Enterprise
on 14-Mar-2013
Very entertaining read !
on 13-Mar-2013
The Bankster is another classic Ravi Subramanian novel, popularly called the "John Grisham" of Banking. The plot is a money laundering conspiracy involving a major private bank of India and the mysterious deaths of its employees related to the scam. The author takes the story on a slow but steady note and managers to throw in few suspicious characters and interesting sub-plots. The writing is in good flow, given he is an Indian based writer and way he takes his story to grip the reader's attention is fabulous. I liked this book very much, having said that i also found few irregularities in the novel towards the climax. Especially where **Spoiler Alert** a covert team of cops from Ukraine takes out an professionally trained CIA agent in UAE. That was bit over the top for a seasoned reader like me. Except that the last revelation was brilliant and the whole books takes you on the journey of the shadowy world of corrupt Banking and under the radar money making business.
on 13-Mar-2013
Have just begun it but already enjoying it. It does seem to bring to life a certain Thai ambience such as is to be found in Thai films. This is the book for you if you do not like action, if you enjoy pages and pages of the protagonist’s introspection, if you enjoy a warped view of the “natives”, if you enjoyed Kipling and Maugham… In short, The Godfather of Kathmandu is yet another product of a writer who has obviously attended classes of some sort on How to Write Novels, who believes in his 1000 words per day regime. Charming at first, in a caricaturistic way, the novel begins to pall when page after page plods painfully through what looks like a Lobsang Rampa bizarro world. Initially, the reading conjured shades of an Oxide Pang movie: the greenish hue, the odd shred of horror thrown in… And here and there, there is, admittedly, something of some small worth: a description of a mall rings quite genuine, for example. But, mostly, a book to give the miss!