Immortal

Professor Bharadvaj is more than just another whisky-loving gun-toting historian-for-hire. Behind the assumed identity of a cynical academic is a man who has walked the earth for scores of years. He is Asvatthama-the cursed immortal the man who cannot die.When Professor Bharadvaj is approached by the enigmatic Maya Jervois to search for a historical artefact unlike any other he is reluctant to pursue it. The object in question the Vajra is rumoured to possess incredible alchemical powers but the Professor does not believe it exists. After all he has spent many lifetimes-and identities-searching for it in a bid to unearth the secret to his unending life.Yet as the evidence of the Vajra's existence becomes increasingly compelling the professor is plunged into an adrenaline-fuelled adventure that takes him from the labyrinthine passages beneath the Somnath temple to the legendary home of the siddhas in the Nilgiris and finally into the deserts of Pakistan to solve a confounding puzzle left behind by the ancients.But who is behind the dangerous mercenaries trying to thwart his discoveries at every step? And is the professor-a legendary warrior in a long-ago life-cursed to walk the path of death and bloodshed forever? About the Author Krishna Udayasankar is the author of The Aryavarta Chronicles series (GovindaKauravaKurukshetra)3ImmortalObjects of Affection andBeast. She lives in Singapore with her family which includes three bookish canine children Boozo Zana and Maya.