Thursday, May 13, 2010

Johnny Gone Down

Writer: Karan Bajaj
Genre: Fiction

The second book from Karan Bajaj is a whirlwind tour and you would not keep it down for its extremely fast paced. And yeah, he keeps it real short, which is an added advantage.

Nikhil Arya and Sam are bosom buddies who have just graduated from MIT. On Sam's insistence they decide to vacation in Cambodia without realizing what they were getting into. The vacation turns sour as the government is overthrown by rebels and the country fights a civil war where Nikhil is almost killed. He manages to escape to the Thai border and tries to find peace in a monastery. But there is not a still point for our protagonist; he becomes a successful Brazilian businessman (reader drug peddler) and decides to settle done with a model. Something changes again and he is again on a run, this time to America. Sharing a room for the homeless he ends up creating a successful networking site before his daemons find him again. He ends up where he started - India!

Nikhil's journey is mind boggling and though I thought that the climax wasn’t really exciting as much as his journey I must say the end was definitely good. Nikhil's roller coaster ride is fun to read and I like this book better then the author's first one :)

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