S. Hussain Zaidi – författare

Munna Jhingada, Farid Tanasha, Baba Reddy… hitmen and executioners all. Each with haunting tales to tell.   The executioner has no remorse. He is the man who strikes the fear of his boss in everybody’s heart. While he has no criminal empire of his own, his barbaric bio-sketch could fill several police case diaries. Those who live by the bullet die by the bullet – almost every last one of them. But in their short reign of terror, they leave a trail of devastation in their wake. In this no-holds-barred book, India’s No. 1 crime writer, S. Hussain Zaidi, backed by years of behind-the-scenes work, provides an insight into the lives of twelve of the most vicious and fearless hitmen of Mumbai, giving readers a first-hand insight into what fuels the men behind some of the bloodiest battles and showdowns in the city.

In the history of the underworld, women have often been written off.Mafia Queens of India brings them back to the center.The journey begins with a woman known only as ';Cleopatra'. Once a trusted figure in Varadarajan Mudaliar's empire, she lives in obscurity but still carries an aura of authority. Her guarded story unlocks a box of others: a gambling queen who carved her own dominion out of numbers, a drug trafficker who used the most ordinary disguises to fool the police, and a madam from Delhi's G.B. Road who ran her brothel district with utter ruthlessness.Each tale shows how audacity could be wielded just as effectively by women as by the men who overshadowed them. We travel to the ravines of Chambal where a bandit seeks revenge against those who'd wronged her. In another part of the country, a ponzi scheme dressed in the garb of religion, derails the lives of millions. In colonial Amritsar, a family is hunted by British troops and a woman's revenge threatens to bring down an empire.Told with the pace of a thriller and the intimacy of eyewitness reporting, Mafia Queens of India is a portrait of women who broke the rules, rewrote them, and sometimes paid the ultimate price. The myriad tales in these pages are a grim reminder that, in the dark shadows of the mafia, the most dangerous figures are not always the ones you expect to be.These are women who ruled rackets, outsmarted dons, and bent entire systems to their will.

In the deadly games of espionage, there are men who kill and disappear without a trace. Agent Lima is one of them—highly trained, efficient and ruthless, an elite operative of India’s most secretive intelligence agency. R.A.W. Hitman 2: The Assassinations unravels the story of how this nameless operative rose to become the most feared weapon in India's covert arsenal. As Lima plunges into the underworld of fake currency, double agents, and high-stakes betrayal, he faces enemies who are willing to die to protect their secrets. Whether infiltrating the dangerous confines of the Almora Jail or navigating the criminal labyrinth of Kathmandu, Lima must play a deadly game, earning the trust of hardened criminals while maintaining his cover. But with each move, the noose tightens. One mistake could cost his life—and India’s future. In the shadows, orchestrating it all, is Colonel Sobhraj, a man who commands from the background, invisible yet ever-present. Their relationship is built on silent trust: Lima is the executioner, while Sobhraj guides him through dangerous terrain. From luring arms dealers to taking down counterfeit networks flooding India’s economy, every move brings Lima closer to the hidden kingpins. But even as Lima outsmarts his enemies, the ghosts of his past loom larger. Each mission pushes him further into the void where the lines between loyalty and betrayal blur. Agent Lima must use every trick he’s learned to hunt down his targets while evading those who seek his death. His legend grows in whispers, in the cold breaths of those who never saw him coming. These are the untold origins of a man who operates in the realm where only the deadliest survive. R.A.W. Hitman 2: The Assassinations is a gripping saga of loyalty, deception and ruthless precision that will leave you breathless until the very last page.

From his plush hideaway in Bangkok, underworld don Shakti Pillai is wreaking havoc amongst India's wealthy. He wields modern technology to extract information and extort money from billionaires while continuing to take on contract killings for anyone who can afford his price. Fed up with the police force's inability to stop the don, some of India's biggest business magnates pool in their crores and hire a mercenary to get rid of him. They recruit the best in the game, an assassin known only as Venus. She is not the only one on this job, though. Pillai has made a number of powerful enemies, and there are other plans in motion to nab India's most-wanted mobstera ruthless police inspector who is an encounter specialist, Pillai's former mentor in the gangland, and others who look at Pillai as their big ticket to success. All are out to capture the don. Each one of them has something to prove. As all the players converge in Bangkok, a thrilling cat-and-mouse game ensues. Who will win? Will Pillai slip away as he always has? An unputdownable page-turner from the master of the underworld novel.