Piyush Jha’s “Rakshasa” is one of its kinds of crime
thriller book to have been ever published. The novel unravels the incidents and
scenarios in the making of a serial killer. How is the person is treated
psychologically, what makes him feel inferior and the path he treads to make
himself feel superior. And how can a person under the similar circumstances
take a very different path to make lives better and to fight for justice.
In the lust of power and superiority a serial killer
goes on to hunt down women at his will, after having traumatic childhood and
being kidnapped at an early age.
A child whose birth evaded a full planned attack on
their house and saved countless lives is a boon for her family is caught in
similar instance of feeling guilty of being the reason for the deaths of her cousin
and aunty.
Deeply heartbroken and in the rage to find justice
for her cousin’s death, grows up to become the Commissioner of Police, to uphold
law and order.
The two children take up two different paths after
being a part of more or less similar circumstances. What will happen when they
meet and how is it going to affect lives will be revealed in the latter half of
the book.
It is one of the best crime thriller books ever
written in India next only to the Bestseller James Patterson.
The instances given in the book and how lives have
been turned upside down by serial killers and the research the author has done
in the process of writing the book is admirable.
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