The Sialkot Saga

Pages: 600
Published: 2016
Language: English

The Sialkot Saga is a standalone historical thriller by Indian novelist Ashwin Sanghi, and one of his loosely connected Bharat books. Spanning roughly half a century of Indian history, it follows two rivals, the businessman Arvind Bagadia and the underworld figure Arbaaz Sheikh, whose fates become entangled through ambition and enmity.

Sanghi threads the personal contest between the two men through the sweep of national events from the 1950s onward, blending gritty crime drama with the author's trademark historical and mythological puzzle-boxes, including the legend of the Nine Unknown Men and an ancient formula said to hold the secret of immortality.

Generational in scope and dense with historical detail, it is written for adult readers who enjoy commercial thrillers that braid fact, fiction, and myth.

Prose complexity: 7/10

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Ashwin Sanghi

Ashwin Sanghi is among India’s highest-selling English fiction authors. He has written several bestsellers in his Bharat Collection (The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chant, The Krishna Key, The Sialkot Saga, Keepers of the Kalachakra, The Vault of Vishnu, The Magicians of Mazda, The Ayodhya Alliance) and two New York Times and Sunday Times UK bestselling crime thrillers with James Patterson, Private India (US: City on Fire) and Private Delhi (US: Count to Ten). He has conceptualised the Kutta Kada...