Book review - PRIVATE INDIA by Ashwin Sanghi and James Patterson

PRIVATE INDIA by ASHWIN SANGHI & JAMES PATTERSON.
     Private India is about 'Private India' an agency. A detective agency and considered the best in their field.
Meet the agency's head Santosh Wagh. He is haunted by his past. But that doesn't deter his duties. He has a well efficient team under him. A well equipped modern office.
Then the murder starts. Women are murdered. And the murderer leaves the women with some props in their hands. And all the women have a yellow scarf tied around their neck. And the victims does not appear to be related to each other in any way. The murders become high profile. The police are happy to give the case to the agency and so the story goes. And how they find the murderer is the main story. In between they get to know further about the victims and many other conflicfs , oppositions and so on.
Totally the book was a good read.

     Ashwin Sanghi's previous books, The Rozabal line, The Chanakya's chant The Krishna key were all a great read. And they were mystifying. Induced an interest in the readers. Symbology and all that stuff. No wonder he was compared with Dan Brown.
James Patterson. A person who has a habit of reading books would be knowing him. And I have read his Alex Cross and Murder club books and some others and they all were good. As far as I have read I was never disappointed in his books.
The combo of two authors have given a great book. But may be I expected more.

And also I felt that James Patterson name should have been first since he is a writer with more experience and he has large fan base than Sanghi. What was publisher's idea behind it?

Private India is the 8th book in the Private series.
Final Verdict of mine: Good
Overall,
Rating: 7.5/10

Book Review - And then there were none by Agatha Christie

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by Agatha Christie
And then there were none. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Quite enchanting!
At the beginning of the novel, there is a poem given. A poem about ten little soldiers. That somewhat intrigues you.
This novel is one of the famous novels of the author. This book will make any one a Christie fan.
Trust me when I say this. You will not need a bookmark for this book. It is a one sitting read. You could read it again and again!
The book starts with ten people on an island. The island is a little eerie to read. No one around! Only the big house where they are all going.
They are not related to each other in any way. The guests range from a Magistrate to a Governess. Some of them have come for work and some are invited. The letters to most are from Mrs.U.N.Owen and Mr.U.N.Owen. But the U.N stands differently for each.
They arrive and the story starts. Anything said more will be a huge spoiler.
This is a book that will make you want to know what is happening.
But there is a clue for finding the murderer!
Do not miss reading this!

Agatha Christie herself has said that this was a book which required a lot of planning and she took a lot of efforts writing this.

We enjoyed reading it too!!

Rating: 10/10.

Book Review - The Target by David Baldacci

It is always not so good to start a series book from the middle. But when you pick up the third book and u don't know that it was the third one, then The Heaven excuses you.
Now, I got this book , The target by David Baldacci a month ago and only now did I find time to read.
The cover page says that this book is featuring Government Assassin Will Robbie.
The book starts with a person named Earl Fontaine, who is dying of cancer and who is also a convict. He was imprisoned for the murder of his wife. He requests the doctor at the facility to send message to his daughter who is in witness protection programme. The doctor asks how it is possible to contact a person in a witness protection programme to which Earl pleaded that he wants to see his only daughter for the last time. The doctor says she will do what she can do.
A meeting goes on in the white house and a secret mission is being planned and Mr.President reluctantly agreeing to use agents Will Robie and Jessica Reel. The CSL Evan Tucker suggests a plan B or rather Team B, incase team A doesn't make it.
Now we are introduced to Will Robbie , a government assassin. He is called for redeployment along with another agent Jessica Reel. Will Robbie meets Julie Getty , a young girl ( from the previous book).
They are asked to come to the Burner Box. They undergo physical and mental evaluation there. They are also tortured to sign a confession. (This confession is regarding the murder of two CSI agents by Jessica Reel. In the previous book Robbie was sent after Jessica to bring her back dead or alive, but he ended up helping her).
They both think that they were bought to be murdered in the Burner Box.
An other character comes namely, Chung Cha and she is a North Korean. She is a person who was released from a prison camp, being the only person to do so. A few pages says about her skills and past. Then she is on her mission. She is following a British National on a train journey and follows him up to a lodge, where she tortures him, having learned various torture techniques from prison camp. She gains what she wanted and leaves to Turkey before anyone could even find his body.
This comes up to half of the book. The first half is a drag. Second half is where the heart of the book is. It is so fast that u don't even know it.
The story line was gripping.
Enter a character called Min in Chung Cha's life. The plot that was plotted in the beginning of the book goes awry. The President gives a  mission to Agent Reel and Robie. It is to correct the flaws of the previous one.
And finally the characters are all plotted a against one another and all end up in the same place and what finally happens? That is the plot.

This is not a racy story which will make you want to read it instantly. But this is a big book which you can read relaxedly without any hurry. And it is a good one.
But finally everyone has their own likes and dislikes. :-)

( One minor error which I saw. The President's son Tom is said to be studying in a boys school, but in one part, he says that all the girls in his class were taller than him. How come?)