टॉप सीक्रेट

Sunil #85

by सुरेन्द्र मोहन पाठक

सुनील के लिये वो एक बहुत ही मनहूस दिन था । इनकम टैक्स की रेड, मकान मालिक का नोटिस, लोगों से झड़प और नौकरी से छुट्टी - सुनील की दुश्वारियों का उस दिन जैसे कोई छोर न था । और फिर इससे पहले कि सुनील उन दुश्वारियों से निपट पाता वो एक ब्लैकमेलर और हत्यारे के कुचक्र में जा फंसा । सुनील सीरीज का एक यादगार उपन्यास !

Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 1982

About the author

Surender Mohan Pathak, is an author of Hindi-language crime fiction with 314 books to his credit. His major characters are Crime reporter Sunil (unprecedented 123 Titles), Vimal (46 Titles) and Philosopher Detective Sudhir (23 titles). Apart from series, he has written 60+ Novels in thriller category.

Reviews

[Ashwin Dongre]

This is a sequel to रेड सर्किल सोसाइटी. It's one of those disappointing Sunil novel in which it's more of a gangster or international spy stories. Which have a lot of action, but not so much as Mystery. Even in this book, you know almost immediately who the murderer is. Although the puppetier of this whole thing is kept secret, but it starts to seem unimportant. Also Sunil hardly do any of the deductive work in this story. In fact, halfway through, he starts to act like a normal man who has no idea what is happening. Very disappointing.
having said that, I must say that SMP's Sunil series novels are great. We need all of them to be converted into audiobooks here.
Audible needs to get a better narrator. Sameer Goswami has a great voice. But great voice with good timber are not the only requirements for a good narrator. A great narrator needs ability to modulate his voice, and most importanly he needs to be able to emote. Goswami does neither of those, Even when the story says the character said the sentence in some particular way, he does not do it. For example, when the script says the speaker shouted, he reads it as if saying with gritting teeth. He narrates in almost monotone. His focus to enunciate each word results in unnatural reading. For example, he pronounced 'Cold drink' as 'colduh dreenk'. Often he reads in Arabi accent, for example when he reads, "wo bola". If you've listened to any of the Audible audiobooks, you'll spot the difference in his performance. I mean I'm not saying he has to be as great as Ray Porter, but he can be at least an average narrator who can emote and modulate.
Audible, please please convert all of the SMP's Sunil and Sudhir series novels, but use a better narrator.

[Mukesh Kumar · Rating 2 out of 5]

Starts off with the promise of a great pulpy story. Good entertaining plot, moves along at a fair clip.
Gets very silly at the end though. The revelation of the mastermind is underwhelming.