Forging

<p>In 1980 a ten-year-old boy watches his father beg for water pipes that will never come. In that moment Raghunath Deshmukh decides democracy is a disease-and he will become the surgeon to cut it out.</p><p>Addictive chilling and impossible to put down <em>Forging</em> is an alternate history thriller that races from the dusty streets of Pune to the blood-soaked birth of a nation. Raghunath's journey-from idealistic student to revolutionary mastermind-unfolds with terrifying logic. He authors a brutal manifesto unites six warlords in a covenant of fire and launches Operation Lotus a surgical campaign to purge millions in the name of purity.</p><p>But the real war begins <em>after</em> victory. The Covenant fractures. Allies become enemies. The constitution he writes becomes a weapon to crush dissent. The streets of Pune run red in a war not for freedom but for absolute control.</p><p>Readers are calling it unputdownable terrifyingly plausible and a masterpiece of political suspense. If you crave dark intelligent and relentlessly paced fiction that explores how idealism curdles into tyranny this is your next obsession. The surgeon has begun his operation. You won't look away.</p>