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Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, India's legendary spymaster, has zeroed in on a new threat emanating from the borderlands over which he keeps watch from his surveillance center in the Himalayan foothills. An elusive warlord—faceless, nameless, and known only by his nom de guerre Guldaar, meaning "leopard" in Urdu—has built an illicit empire throughout the lands that Alexander the Great once conquered, based on extortion, money laundering, corruption, and murder. His reach extends across national boundaries, and with support from elements in the CIA and Pakistan's ISI, he plays tribal factions and sovereign nations off each other and threatens to destabilize the entire, nuclear-armed region.
Seizing on Guldaar's one vulnerability, his ex-lover living with their son under CIA control in the United States, Afridi calls on agent Annapurna "Anna" Tagore to spring her loose and return her to India, where he needs her help to lay a trap. Meanwhile, when an American journalist reporting from Pakistan comes too close to the inner workings of Guldaar's empire, he is kidnapped by the Taliban and traded to the warlord as a hostage. As Afridi closes in, the American will become a critical bargaining chip in Guldaar's ruthless battle for survival.
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February 7, 2017 -
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- ISBN: 9781628726534
- File size: 1324 KB
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- ISBN: 9781628726534
- File size: 1320 KB
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- English
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December 5, 2016
In Alter’s busy sequel to 2016’s The Rataban Betrayal, Col. Imtiaz Afridi, an Indian intelligence officer, is patient and thorough in his pursuit of a Pakistani warlord known only as Guldaar through the United States, India, and Pakistan. Guldaar (which means leopard in Urdu) has created a criminal network throughout the Middle East and South Asia supported by rogue elements of the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI. The labyrinthine plot involves shadowy U.S. intelligence forces, a large defense and aeronautics firm, and a Pakistani charitable organization, the Sikander-e-Azam Trust. Though some consider the trust to be a sterling example of fine philanthropic work, others suspect the organization is a cover for more sinister activities. The Taliban’s kidnapping of an American journalist in Pakistan raises the stakes. Alter’s vibrant depictions of Pakistan and India serve well to draw the reader into the intrigue. However, a surfeit of irrelevant detail about the countries’ culture and history at times slows the thriller plot.
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