The Leaden Wall: A Thriller
It is the one question a war can turn on - and no satellite can answer it.
The answer rests with a man who does not exist. For ten years Major Hamza Khan has lived in Delhi as "Arjun Malhotra," the network engineer every office waves through - a deep-cover Pakistani officer, asleep, until a Kashmir massacre lights the fuse and two armies move. Reactivated, he assembles the shape of India's opening air plan from a hundred harmless fragments. On the first night of the war, eight Indian jets fall out of the sky.
But a patient hunter named Aditya Rao has been pulling the same thread from the other end - and India, unable to admit how deeply it was read, would rather bury the man than the truth. What follows is capture, a black site, a flight into worse hands, and a long way home to a medal no one can ever see.
The Leaden Wall is a political thriller of statecraft, tradecraft, and the price of winning a secret war - told with cool documentary precision and cross-cut between the operative, the hunter, and the war rooms of two capitals.
For readers of Frederick Forsyth, John le Carré, and Daniel Silva.
Forsyth's documentary precision with le Carré's moral cost - an India-Pakistan war fought in the dark.
Book one of The FOXHOUND Saga. A complete, standalone novel. Entirely fictional.
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