Atharva: A Digital Crime Thriller

by Amit Dubey, Triveni Singh

Amit, an Ethical Hacker and a Crime Investigator, who closely works with the police to solve cybercrime cases, indulges in a series of complex virtual world crimes. These crimes take him through a journey of multiple illusions. There are five unusual criminal cases and Amit & Dilip starts investigating them one by one, using his hacking and technical skills, understanding the algorithms and decoding the conversational messages. But soon he realizes that he is getting into some trap as all these stories are eventually linked together which earlier seemed to be independent investigations. Dilip, a police officer and a very practical person, a close friend of Amit, tries to segregate the virtual illusion with the real world. Kumud, Amit ‘s wife is struggling to understand Amit and his complex thinking processes but eventually she is the one who is indirectly helping Amit and is instrumental in giving clues through some simple real life learnings. After various shocking revelations and hidden facts every time Dilip and Amit nab a criminal, they realize that the culprit they have caught is not the real culprit, but there is someone, something which is still hidden and they are unable to reach him. Who is that? and why is it difficult to reach him and where to draw the real and virtual boundaries is what is making it difficult to understand the whole situation. In such disappointing situation, Amit starts referring Bhagvatgeeta and starts discussing those verses, and soon he realizes the solution. The story gives you an unimaginable experience of Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Augmented Realities and IOT and Big data based Crimes. What is block chain and How it is inevitable in these situations? What is singularity and when the world is reaching to singularity as per Moore’s law. Eventually you learn that “Reality is merely an illusion albeit a very persistent one”

171 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 20, 2021

Reviews

[Ishika Raj]

Very nice...got boring in the middle for 5-10!% but overall worth reading and enjoyed every chapter as it became more intense with the upcoming chapter ..when you'll think its going to end it will leave you in shock with an unexpected twist.

[sandip anand · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good read to understand the vulnerable times we live in. Though it is a work of fiction, it is absolutely possible to be in such situations.