The Bankster (Book review)

"Bullet and a coin weighs the same, and a Banker knows which one to use when.."

Ravi Subramanian's latest banking thriller comprising of web of lies, murders, political treacheries and international crimes, will give you a perfect example of same. 

Ravi Subramanian, winner of Golden Quill Readers Choice Award 2008, An alumnus of IIM Banglore, banker himself for more than two decades has a perfect narrative style suitable for a gripping thriller. The way he has dealt with a sensitive yet curious subject of what professional politics happens inside the secured walls of banks, has to be given distinction marks. The perfect introduction, establishment and the execution of every character in the story gets full marks to the writer. Also to he has handled the various tracks of stories very playfully which keeps the reader locked to the book.

The Bankster runs simultaneously in three different tracks at the same time where an international criminal (Joseph Braganza) is going to exchange weapons for dimonds in Angola, An elderly man (Krishna Menon) is fighting against Government of India for a nobel cause, while a series of murders of key employees of an international bank is soon to be un-covered by a journalist cum ex-banker (Karan Punjabi). All the three stories have been coincided very intelligently at the end which keeps the reader stunned.

The story takes a slow start and it is possible that an impatient reader may give up the read as the actual series of events takes more than almost a half of book to get started. Many times unimportant characters have been given more space which could have been eliminated. The description sometimes just get off limit which involves revealing of certain sequence or a character. This actually tests the patience of a reader. But the only thing that takes overcomes all the flaws is the perfect story line. The story is so strong, well framed and executed that at the end the reader is kept spell bounded. Another important key point is that a reader is never in state of confusion through out the course of read. This is according to me is the result of in depth description of every character and event drafted in the initial establishment section of the story. 

Over all the book is wroth spending a few days and is strongly recommended to the patient and the ones who actually want to read a original and classic piece of work. I'll give it a three stars out of five and actually congratulate the author for creating such a master piece at times where the content is losing it's hold, over cheap genres.  

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