The Victims Of Desire

The Victims Of Desire (ISBN: 978-81-8465-115-7) is a 2009 crime/thriller novel by Indian author Ram Mishra. It was Ram's first major book based on a diamond heist. It received positive responses from most of its readers. The book was first published by Bookworm Publishers & Distributors, a publishing company based in Indore(M.P). The book was also listed online at Pothi.com and A1-Books.
Plot summary
A man’s desires are like ripples on water, they never cease to enlarge.
In the year 1808, a precious diamond gets stolen from an ancient Kali temple in Rajasthan, India. Two Hundred years later, in the year 2008, the diamond resurfaces in Australia. The Diamond is presently worth a staggering Ten Million Dollars. It is currently owned by a cunning millionaire, Alexander Fox, the powerful owner of Fox Ammunitions Inc, one of the biggest weapons manufacturing company in Australia.
Fox has kept the diamond in his ancestral mansion in Dubbo, Australia, where the diamond lies in a safety vault placed inside a secret underground room which is secured by a centralized computer security system and is constantly guarded by armed security guards. To steal the diamond from Fox’s ancestral mansion, KK Raina, assembles a team consisting of Ira Handrich, an amazingly beautiful computer hacker; Siddhanth Roy, an ex-Indian Air Force pilot, simultaneously battling the global economic downturn and fate to save his dying daughter; Harry D’Cruz, a brilliant safe cracker whose dreams were shattered during the 26/11 terrorist attacks in India; and Karan Singh, the inside man. The team travels to Australia in order to pull off the heist. The scene is set for an extraordinary adventure which elicits everyone’s obscurest desires.
Events and Incidents Covered
The book covers both international and domestic incidents like the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Global Recession and the demolition of the LTTE terrorist organization and their impacts on the characters.

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