The Honest Season

Download or read book The Honest Season written by Kota Neelima and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 political rivals fighting for power 1 journalist caught in the battle 6 tapes secretly recorded in Parliament 1 government with a lot to hide Sikander Bansi, an unlikely political heir in Delhi, secretly records politicians in Parliament as they haggle to become cabinet ministers, bag defence contracts, dodge criminal charges and collect corporate largesse. Among them is a rising leader of the People’s Party, Nalan Malik, whose success has come through unscrupulous means. When Sikander suddenly disappears, Mira Mouli, a newspaper journalist with an unusual gift for knowing people’s thoughts, receives the controversial Parliament tapes along with clues to find him. She is attracted to Sikander’s principles and is wary of Nalan’s deceit. But her powers of knowing tell her a different story, one that she can unravel only at the cost of her life. From the bestselling author of Shoes of the Dead, this is a disturbing political fiction that reveals why Parliament functions behind gates closed to the public.