Vimal promised himself that he would move to Delhi and live a normal life as a family man with his wife and child; erasing every memory of his haunting past. He promised to forget that he had spent his life scraping bloody words into the wall of time. But one day, a whirlwind puts a sudden end to the calm before the storm and he is blown away like a twig. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself in that place where he promised never to venture again. About the Author Surendra Mohan Pathak was born on 19 February 1940 in Khemkaran, Punjab. After graduating in Science, he began to work at the Indian Telephone Industries Ltd. By the time he grew up, he had already read many national and international writers and begun translating the novels of Ian Fleming, Mario Puzo and James Hadley Chase, after which he began his own writing. His most popular novels were Asafal Abhiyaan and Khaali Vaar, which took Pathak to the very zenith of fame. Since then, he has never looked back. His novel, Painsath Lakh ki Dakaiti was also published in English and made news for selling hundreds of millions of copies.