Book: Two Faced Three Knives
Author: Sairam Subramanian
Publisher: Evincepub Publishers (2022)
ISBN: 9789354465628
Reviewed By: Neel Preet
“Life can be too mysterious sometimes and one cannot even imagine what results would occur when those mysteries would be unveiled. One can only hope that the mysteries would result for something sweet and pleasant!”
Well, before starting the review of this amazing title, “Two Faced Three Knives” by Author Sairam Subramanian, let me mention that the Author has made a brilliant effort with his novel. The book covers a great story, which revolves around the main character and the incidents of her live. The way some mysteries will unveil in the life of the prime character of the plot, will make the readers feel the thrill while going through this amazing novel.
About the Author: From Banking to Teaching to Development, Author Sairam Subramanian’s leadership career of over 16 years has been driven by a quest for greater meaning, scale, impact and complexity in his work. His early years of career were marked by assignments with Indian and International banks including HSBC, Deutsche, ICICI and Yes Bank before his pivotal transition to development sector where he engaged directly with underserved communities, large NGOs, Corporate CSRs, multilaterals and government.
The confluence of these engagements has shaped Author Sairam’s understanding of various aspects of sustainable development as an interplay of these actors. Through his authorship, he is inspired to take the impressions from his experience, the emerging landscape of human development in different parts of the world to a wider global audience by blending field realities, current sustainability challenges and entertainment.
His current work of crime fiction is an effort in the direction to connect with and engage a wide segment of readers in an entertaining way, informing them of the various social issues and inspiring them to participate in solving these challenges.
While writing the book he has also been working as a consultant for one of the leading International Consulting Firms, Palladium International. His prior engagements in international development include stints with TechnoServe, GIZ.
Book’s Introduction: This book, Two Faced Three Knives by Author Sairam Subramanian comes under the category of ‘Corporate Crime & Thriller’ and is filled with suspense at every instances in the plot. The storyline of this book is revolving around Trisha, who is the main character of the novel. Trisha, who is a competitive management consultant from India, works for an international firm and recently has been seconded to London for an assignment.
The story takes the reader across remotest corners of Africa, the villages of India, cities of Delhi, Mumbai and London back and forth through the various twists and turns in life of Trisha. Working on a business transformation project for a multinational chocolate company, Trisha has to travel to remote lands of Africa where she is exposed to corrupt and inhuman practices, which are in contrast to the image the company is projecting internationally!
Book Title: The title “Two Faced Three Knives” for this book, which is a corporate crime thriller novel, is certainly an appropriate one with reference to the collection of chapters added in this book by the Author. Moreover, it is a very ‘Catchy Title’ and this is something, which makes the book even more interesting, as the title itself compels you to pick up this book for a read. In this case, the title is giving a very mysterious as well as an interesting vibe. Therefore, as a reader you would feel the urge to go inside the chapters and try to understand the Author’s thoughts!
In addition, I must mention that the title of this book is much “Justified” with regards to the reading worthy storyline present in this book. Undoubtedly, it is a very apt Book Title for this novel & the Author had been extremely wise to go for this title.
Readers Connect: Through this book, Author Sairam Subramanian has attempted to bring a feel of thrill for the readers and this is something, which will make the readers go page by page of this title. The story in this book covers everything, from corporate journey to crime to mystery, thriller and suspense and the reader are bound to experience everything!
Another very important aspect of this book is that the storyline is indeed engrossing & interesting and the narration style by the Author is so amazingly lucid, that it would totally hook the readers until the very last page of this thriller novel. Moreover, this is a book, which will make the readers think about the plot for several times, even after completing the book.
Verdict: A Book like “Two Faced Three Knives” is for sure a Must Read one& deserves a chance by the readers. The way Author had presented the central character in this book and made sure to retain the suspense until the very end of the story, making the storyline truly incredible. His work is seriously praise worthy as he has succeeded in making a great book in the category of corporate crime & thriller!
Author, Sairam Subramanian is a promising Author, who is very creative in his writing, which the readers can feel through his spectacular writings. In addition, his honest work makes this book even more Reading Worthy!