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Breach: A Cyber Thriller
by Amrita Chowdhury
Description:
How secure are your secrets? Weeks before Acel is ready to file the global patent application for Colare, a wonder drug for pancreatic cancer, the research data stored at its offshore data center in Mumbai goes haywire and Dr. Udai Vir Dhingra, the charismatic, Ivy-educated young leader of its Indian business, gets blamed. The trail leads to Raghu Damodaran, a precocious teen exploring the very edges of what can be done in cyber space, and then gets lost. Battling market pressures, media leaks, livid American bosses and crumbling relationships, Vir must find the real perpetrators or see his career and his life spiral downwards. Swept into a shadowy world of masked online identities and muddied digital footprints, Vir discovers that nothing is easy or obvious, and everything has a price. Set in Mumbai, Washington DC and Suzhou, in an online-meets-offline adventure of cyber threats and IP espionage, drug research and medical ethics, strained affairs and lost love, disillusionment and hopelessness, Breach is a clever, fast-paced thriller full of surprises.
About The Author
Amrita Verma Chowdhury is the author of Faking It, an art crime thriller about fake modern and contemporary Indian art. She holds engineering degrees from IIT Kanpur and UC Berkeley, where she was a Jane Lewis Fellow, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon-Tepper Business School. Her work as an engineer in Silicon Valley led to seven US patents for semi-conductor fabrication something to show for all those bad-haired days. She has done strategy consulting and board effectiveness work in the US and Australia and has spent long nights fitting five-syllable words inside two-by-two squares. She has worked in the rarefied bastions of Ivy League education bringing together ideas and people. She currently works in publishing. She lives in Mumbai with her husband Sumit, their two children Shoumik and Aishani, and an assortment of pets including a cocker spaniel, a guinea pig and two turtles. She loves travelling, baking cupcakes with her daughter and hearing from her readers.
Skryf review
Excelent Read
Acel the multinational giant in the pharma industry is on the verge of patenting a new drug ‘Colare’ that can combat cancer. But, just when everything seems to b going fine the project runs into rough weather with the team realizing that there has been a breach. Billions are at stake and with that the career and life of the main protagonist Vir and his team. Just as one would expect, the blame game starts, the disgruntled find an outlet to vent their frustration, sleep deprived staff work round the clock trying to figure out what went wrong, who are the perpetrators of the crime and how to control the damage done.
The nitty- gritty of cyber crime and cyber security is discussed effectively making even the layman, the non-techie enjoy each new twist and turn without getting confused. This speaks volumes for the research that has gone into the making of the book.
The characters are well etched with all their imperfections. One can easily relate to them, their feelings, ambitions and frustrations.
Language is crisp and lucid. No hard nuts to crack no pebbles to take away the taste thus making the pace and flow just right and smooth. A fast paced thriller, ‘Breach’ is sure to make one sit up and devour each word that makes up the book.Storyline: Interesting, intriguing, realistic and enaging.
Storyline: Interesting, intriguing, realistic and enaging.