Dead to Deadly

By Avinder Singh

"They knew who I was."

Kashmir, May 2000. Ajay Raina is a nobody. A juice-company employee on a routine business trip. By nightfall he is blindfolded in the back of a militant van, hands tied, listening to his captors plan his death.

The ransom they demand is a lie. The boss who sent him knew. And the only way home is a fist-sized stone, a stolen rifle, and a long walk down a mountain that changes who he is.

What Ajay does next will leave thirteen years of carnage in his wake, and a corner office at the top.

Dead to Deadly is a debut political thriller set against the most violent year of the Kashmir insurgency: ISI-funded militants, a Rashtriya Rifles counter-insurgency that rewards body counts, and a corporate India where bribes flow as freely as bullets. Drawn from the author's own years of service in the Kashmir Valley, this is the story of a man who is broken, then rebuilt into something far more dangerous than the men who took him.

Perfect for readers of: Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games, Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, Hussain Zaidi's Dongri to Dubai, or anyone who watched The Family Man and wanted to read the book it should have been adapted from.

If you have ever wondered what an ordinary man does when he discovers he was sent to die, and finds he likes the man he becomes, this is your next read.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1068929839
• ISBN13: 9781068929830
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Harsimran Kaur Kapoor
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"