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I was told that your lives were in danger,™ Badruddin said.
˜Our lives are still in danger,™ Mike said, ˜because the people we™re with are unlikely to set us free unless we give them what they want.™
˜Which is?™
˜The treasure, the amanat--that™s what everybody is after,™ Noor said.
Terrorist violence and a nightmare drive Shamsuddin Bandey, head priest of a shrine in Aishmuqam village in Jammu and Kashmir, to find out more about some of the 300-year-old scrolls kept in his family™s custody for generations.
But his actions arouse the suspicions of a top bureaucrat and a history professor. The corrupt duo believe the scrolls may point the way to a vast, buried treasure”and they will stop at nothing to get it.
Elsewhere, militants break into a museum in Srinagar and steal valuable artefacts to fund their war against India. They also kidnap a woman scientist.
Along the way, others are drawn into the action: Michael Zutshi, an American professor nostalgic about his childhood spent in Kashmir, and Ashok Dalela, a CBI officer on the trail of the masterminds behind the illegal trade in antiques.
A gripping thriller set in a time of trouble, Close Call in Kashmir will keep you on the edge of your seat.
ISBN-9780143414605
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Pages : 240
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