Bankerupt

Title: Bankerupt

Author: Ravi Subramanian

Publisher: Penguin India

Pages: 319

Publication year: 2013 January

I had been thinking of reading a book by Ravi Subramanian ever since I got to know he's known as the 'John Grisham of banking','India's John Grisham'. And when I felt like reading a thriller -picked up "BANKERUPT' by Ravi Subramanian and it was one heck of a ride.

Its quite difficult to write a summary of this book as there are more than one stream running for a majority of the book and in the end they converge to provide one heck of a climax.

Right at the beginning of the book,in the second chapter-a woman is lying dead in the Boston Public garden. No signs of  injury on her body, is it only a tired jogger who suffered a heart attack? Or there is something more to this? This is only the beginning(also the end!?) of all the thrills and spills in this book.

Cirisha Narayan is an extremely honest and upright woman working as an assistant professor in Social Pshycology department of MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology), Boston.

Aditya Raisinghania is an ambitious but greedy investment banker at Greater Boston Global Bank(GB2), who gets his hands dirty getting involved in all sorts of fraudulent ways along with his friend Shivinder Singh. Ultimately pays the price for it and is sacked.

Once Aditya moves to Boston after getting sacked to live with Cirisha, the story moves into top gear advancing at a rapid pace and you just cannot put the book down until you finish it. Its an emotional roller coaster ride, you can hear your heartbeats quite loud at this stage.

Another subplot is the power struggle between two superpowers of MIT, Micheal Cardoza and James Deahl. Somewhere along the line Cirisha gets caught in all of this following the death of her dear friend Richard Avendon, an assistant professor at MIT desperate to get his tenure.

Its hard to put down thriller with the story moving at a rapid speed with short and crisp chapters throughout. A must read if you are wanting to read a thriller, you'll enjoy the ride. 

Guranteed!

Rating: 8/10