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!
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By ashokbhats
on 12-Mar-2013
Extremely thrilling book.
The first book of the Inheritance cycle.
This book portrays the the life of a poor farm boy eragon who fins a polished blue stone in the spine.His life is completely transformed from a poor farm boys life to a dragon riders life .A dragon hatches from the stone which was actually an egg. He names her Saphira who is a bright scale dragon which is Saphire in color.He does not allow anyone to know about hi discovery and raises Saphira.One night his secret is relieved by an aged story teller Brom who protects him ,teaches him magic and also swordsmanship Eragon later discovers Brom was himself a dragon rider.He also makes friends with Murtah. Murtah saves his life on a number of occations and gains trust.Eragon later finds out he was the dragon riders Morzan son who betrayed the eldor council and destroyed the remaining dragon riders.To his good fortune he also meets an elf named Arya during his journey who he saves from a shade named durza .Later whit the help of srying her he gets to know the location of the varden who he joins to defeat the evil king Galbatorex.He is well trained by the varden comprizing of elves and a few humans.He also meets Ajhad a leader of the varden. The following day an army comprizing of urgals and Kull break into the furthen dur and rage a very ferocious battle can Eragon and his dragon Saphira protect the varden and engrave their names into history.Can they defeat Galbatorex and secure the future of alageisia read the book to find out more....
Incubated Enterprise
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!
on 12-Mar-2013
Extremely thrilling book. The first book of the Inheritance cycle. This book portrays the the life of a poor farm boy eragon who fins a polished blue stone in the spine.His life is completely transformed from a poor farm boys life to a dragon riders life .A dragon hatches from the stone which was actually an egg. He names her Saphira who is a bright scale dragon which is Saphire in color.He does not allow anyone to know about hi discovery and raises Saphira.One night his secret is relieved by an aged story teller Brom who protects him ,teaches him magic and also swordsmanship Eragon later discovers Brom was himself a dragon rider.He also makes friends with Murtah. Murtah saves his life on a number of occations and gains trust.Eragon later finds out he was the dragon riders Morzan son who betrayed the eldor council and destroyed the remaining dragon riders.To his good fortune he also meets an elf named Arya during his journey who he saves from a shade named durza .Later whit the help of srying her he gets to know the location of the varden who he joins to defeat the evil king Galbatorex.He is well trained by the varden comprizing of elves and a few humans.He also meets Ajhad a leader of the varden. The following day an army comprizing of urgals and Kull break into the furthen dur and rage a very ferocious battle can Eragon and his dragon Saphira protect the varden and engrave their names into history.Can they defeat Galbatorex and secure the future of alageisia read the book to find out more....