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Dead End: The Minister, the CBI, and the Murder That Wasn’t
Corrupt officers. Incompetent police. A corpse. And lots and lots of paperwork.
Bangalore, 1987. A nondescript advocate from Kerala attempting to correct a 'typographical error' is brutally murdered. When two post-mortems and multiple police inquiries yield nothing, CBI officer Kuppuswamy Ragothaman must intervene to crack open this cold case and lead an investigation spanning three states, wade through bureaucratic red tape and step into the murky world of politics as he tries to build a case against the state home minister, the police and his own colleague. Will he be able to bring justice to the victim, or will forces much more powerful than him control the outcome? This thrilling tale of true crime is based on author V. Sudarshan's extensive interviews with the CBI officer K. Ragothaman, and brings to life a murder investigation that shook the country over three decades ago.
Bangalore, 1987. A nondescript advocate from Kerala attempting to correct a 'typographical error' is brutally murdered. When two post-mortems and multiple police inquiries yield nothing, CBI officer Kuppuswamy Ragothaman must intervene to crack open this cold case and lead an investigation spanning three states, wade through bureaucratic red tape and step into the murky world of politics as he tries to build a case against the state home minister, the police and his own colleague. Will he be able to bring justice to the victim, or will forces much more powerful than him control the outcome? This thrilling tale of true crime is based on author V. Sudarshan's extensive interviews with the CBI officer K. Ragothaman, and brings to life a murder investigation that shook the country over three decades ago.
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Published September 25, 2022
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V. Sudarshan
4 books2 followersV. Sudarshan is a journalist and the author of the non-fiction narratives, Dead End: The Minister, the CBI and the Murder That Wasn't; Adrift: A True Story of Survival at Sea and Anatomy of an Abduction.
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May 15, 2024
A very scary true crime thriller involving private institutional rivalry, political and gang feud in which a poor lawyer gets embroiled
The very dry way in which it was written was an impediment for me to fully imbibe the book.
I read up the M.A. Rasheed and Jalappa news online.
Horrific.
The very dry way in which it was written was an impediment for me to fully imbibe the book.
I read up the M.A. Rasheed and Jalappa news online.
Horrific.
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