Googled By God

by Pulkit Ahuja

In 1986Everyone has their secrets… But what if one common student’s secret has the potential of bringing down an entire nation’s financial markets. What would it take for him to reveal this secret? In 2014One of Nation’s leading investment bank is in danger of losing its fifty million dollar investment just four weeks after funding a start-up at a valuation of one thousand crore rupees. In 2015A man is faced with a most peculiar choice – to avenge his brother’s murder or take revenge for his father’s betrayal? Googled by God is a fast moving financial thriller that takes the reader on a journey to the dark realms of entrepreneurship and technology. Revolving around the ever changing worlds of stock markets, investments and money, the reader soon finds himself in the middle of a dangerous game of emotions and karma.

Genres: Fiction

179 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Diwakar Grandhi]

It never seemed like the author was dragging the story. A good one for a quick read.
The story covered aspects like greed, revenge to name a few of the shades we see in our day to day life.
It seemed to be a bit too easy for the protagonist once he started on his path of revenge. Everything went as planned. However, life is never like that. The beauty of life is that it throws unplanned/unexpected surprises all the time. Maybe the author could have played around some of those while the big plan was being played out. That could have added a hint of realism in this story.

[Sunny B]

Very fast paced. Deals with financial instruments that have recently surfaced in the Indian market which makes it more interesting.
I like the fact that this was made into a quick read of approx. 168 pages rather than a typical novel of 300 pages, which makes it a no nonsense financial thriller. Although, the background of many characters is unknown, but doesn't seem incomplete.
Great job for a first time author! Kudos!

[Anil Swarup]

The story is built around misuse and abuse of technology and the internet. The narration is taut that makes for an interesting read even for those that do not understand the nuances of the stock market or the complex technology that goes into managing such markets.

[Arpita Karkare]

Started off well but then the story didn't quite pick up. Was a little disappointed as I felt the author had picked up a theme with good potential and given it a good momentum to get it off the ground too. Well, maybe the next ones will be so!

[Sagnik Nag]

Good attempt by the debutant. It's a shorter book comparatively for a thriller fiction.
Pretty fast paced !
Last quarter of the story got really predictable & there was no anxiousness left towards the end.

[ritupon deori]

Felt like a fine script that would be a hit if made into web series. Joking.. The intensity and pace at which the story paces is worth praising. Plot contains some unknown business trading insights one can get to know here..

[Vishal Vishu]

Short and sweet read . This is something that would enthuse people in the stock market.
Since its a small work, not much emphasis is laid on building characters .
The plot is very simple , language is easy to read and unexpected twists at the end add value to the story.

[Gaurav Seth]

Nice

Nice one time quick read. Noek sounds good but the author leaves it much untouched, may be because of its a fiction novel and not a science research paper

[Sudhanshu Prasad]

Nice

Really Good for a two hour read. Believable and not very verbose. Read something like that after a long long time.

[राजीव रंजन]

Nice Read

Nice twist ane plots. Considering the revenge drama is tried and tested story line with added masala of stock market makes it more interesting .

[Karan Darwani]

"Baap ka, Bhai ka, sabka badla lega re tera Sahil"

[Ashwini]

loved reading this book. fast. racy. suspenseful. page turner. a new age thriller I would say. go read.

[Mithun]

Financial thriller!!!

Awesome book.. Keep us engaged throughout and the way he narrated the story and linking the incidents is good.
Worth reading...

[Sai Prashant]

Nice peice of work

Loved the way , charactees were brought to life.All characters were closley knit and intandom with storyline. Loved the dramatic ending.

[Varun Reddy]

Interesting concept but got a little too Bollywood at a later stage.

[sujit nair]

Short and fast

It was pretty straight a story without much twists and turns for putting ur thought ahead in line. A bit of suspense wud have done better

[Sayan Barman]

Nice Read

A good read with good concept. Good for a debut author. Book is fast paced with a decent storyline. Refresh your reading list with this

[Sujeet Kudale]

Great page turner by Pulkit

Great story telling skills by author considering first book. One star missing not because I disliked something genuinely but my constant comparison with other English classic thrillers. Looking forward to read more from the author.

[Charan]

Rating: 6/10

[Siddhartha]

Gripping at every scene. Loved the way how plot was opened and the ending is a very spiked one. Loved every page and scene. Intensity was so high. Applause!!

[AB]

A good book to read for those who are interested in financial market. It is a sweet revenge taken by a brother whose younger brother was murdered. I am not sure on how easily you can fool the head of financial company

[Vaibhav Kulkarni]

Excellent fiction novel - with a background of financial markets.

[Dinakshi Arora]

Too far-fetched and full of loopholes.

[Ranganathan Kothandaraman]

I was hooked by the title 'Googled by God - In search of money' written by Pulkit Ahuja. Sahil Kashyap got into a peculiar situation after loss of his only brother in a freak accident and being made aware why his father was convicted.

Rahul Kashyap wanted to dream big and shared his portfolio project with JONAS - Akram. As Rahul's portfolio will be a potential loss to the existing merger with PayKwik, Akram kills Rahul and frames the killing as accident. In flashback, Rahul/Sahil's father Vijay was successful in developing a code for controlling stock markets and reaped undue gains. But, he was sent to jail by his friend / partner in crime Paul.

How Sahil manages to do both in the backdrop of investment banking, startup and stock market is the crux of the story. This can be termed as one of the better finanical thrillers written in Indian context.

[Swathi Shenoy]

Money is the ultimate goal for many people. What crossroads can one take to earn more? How much greed can a person have and to what extent will this be satisfied?

Vijay and Paul, back in their college days, invented a machine which they called God or Noek. It had the capability of earning huge profit for them at the cost of jeopardizing the whole nation's financial market. But what happens when Paul kicks out Vijay out of his own machine?

Akram, JASON's head is facing some fluctuations in their trade and he has no idea what or who it is responsible for the loss he is suffering from. Rahul, the young to-be entrepreneur is found dead as soon as he signed his contract with JASON.

When Sahil connects the dot and finds a link with all these incidents, will he be able to take his revenge? Could he bring justice or will he fall prey to his own trap?

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[VISHAL SHARMA]

Pulkit Ahuja's debut novel is a financial thriller with a good concept. The narrative is simple & easy to understand. Its a easy ready with but characters lack depth.
The beginning is just amazing..
But problem is plot is simplified so much that if you have some understanding of stock market, you know how it would end..

But my take exemplary & commendable read and can easily be compared to earlier writings Ravi Subramanian, the John Grisham of banking, but writing needs some polishing...
I am eagerly awaiting the author’s next..

[Nitin Arora]

A very nice book. Although the plot is quite similar to a typical Bollywood movie, but the concept of the machine introduced in this book sounds very enticing to me.
Being a finance professional, I can relate to each and every aspect talked about in this book and trust me you will enjoy reading this book very much no matter what your background is.
Overall its worth your time and money.

[Sharat Bandlur]

You need to have a substantial knowledge about stock markets before reading this book. A good book if not great by a debutant but everything seemed to be going over my head while reading it. The rating is only for the suprecerbral terms used in the books which I never bothered to fathom.

[SY NU]

Could have been better in narrating few details. But definitely a good read for people who have some little idea about finance and stock market. If 'The Bankster' gets 10, I will give 7 for this book.

[Rama Kumar]

Interesting! After "Not a penny more Not a penny Less" this is my second financial thriller. Not bad .