The Portrait of a Secret

A Novel Inspired by True Events

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What can a patriot do when he has to make the choice between self-preservation and love for his country?

As India’s Chief of Intelligence, Amitabh has spent a career battling India’s enemies, domestic and foreign. Now, in the winter of his illustrious career, he is faced with his most daunting challenge yet—averting a nuclear strike against his homeland that he knows very little about—except that it is coming.

As Indian intelligence works feverishly to uncover the truth, Amitabh’s path crosses Kamal’s, a senior IAS officer, who is investigating the theft of two priceless paintings from India.

Even as they work together to accomplish their missions, the paintings reveal a secret thought to have been lost in the fires of Partition. The discovery unleashes a global battle between the RAW, the ISI and the CIA, as each scrambles for control over a secret that would permanently swing global geopolitical power towards them. Innocent lives and intelligence assets built over decades are ruthlessly sacrificed for something far more valuable—control over the Indian subcontinent.

Everything is at stake until one man is forced to make an impossible choice—one that will decide the fate of the world.