God Is a Gamer - Softcover

Ravi Subramanian (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143421395 ISBN 13: 9780143421399

Publisher: Penguin Books India, 2014

Synopsis

God is a Gamer is a world where money means nothing, martyrs are villains, predators are prey, assassination is taught by the ancient Greeks, and nothing is as it seems.Aditya is an entrepreneur, running his own gaming company. The arrival of a part-time drug dealer and full-time genius named Varun turns Aditya s struggling company s fortunes around. However, things are not as they seem. A banker slips from the rooftop of a high-rise building and falls to his death. A finance minister with his heart on his sleeve discovers that he has made some promises which will cost him far too much. An explosion in Washington D.C. leads the FBI to a chase in Mumbai. The investigators begin to plummet down a world where bitcoins are the only meaningful form of currency. Here, everything is governed by the Dark Net, a group of nefarious websites dealing with illegal transactions. In this world, God is a Gamer, martyrs are villains, the hunters become the hunted and the ancient Greeks teach the secrets of assassination. In this new novel, nothing is what it seems.

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Review:

In his earlier novel author Ravi Subramanian dealt banking and education. This time it looks into the cyber crime with banking which has become a matter of great concern all over the world. The novel should be a thriller for the new gen and a book with loads of information on the good and bad sides of electronic media and plastic money to the older generation of readers. Unquestionably, a good read! --Gopalaraman Swaminathan Sep 25, 2014

Ravi Subramanian, I d say, could be India s answer to Sidney Sheldon! The plot is amazing and keeps you hooked till the last page. For people not familiar with networking and the concept of public and private keys, it may be difficult to sustain through the first few pages. But as you read ahead, eventually, you start to get what these are at least enough to not spoil your reading experience. Subramanian constructs a labyrinth with each word he writes. What I liked was how very clean he is in doing that. The story has several primary and secondary characters and many cross-plots. With a story-line like that, there was a possibility of everything getting so jumbled up that I was afraid I d be lost. But that did not happen even once. Subramanian keeps his character descriptions to the point easy to remember and yet difficult to guess the real culprit. His plot paces and flows very effectively, not too slow and certainly not so fast that you need to stop once in a while and get a stock of where you are. His choice of words weaves a mystery that gives hints to what is coming next in such an uneven pattern that you are left wondering right till the end. God is a Gamer is the first book I ve read by Ravi Subramanian and I am totally totally bowled over. This one definitely is a must-read for all lovers of mystery. --Nikita Jhanglani Dec 20, 2014

Man i pre-ordered the book. At that time the cost was around 200+. N now its only 119. :( Though it was worth the buy.Probably the worlds first Bitcoin Thriller. A good thriller is one where the page turns by itself, and this surely did. Cummon make a movie out of it already!! Ravi Subramanian u listining! --Abhishek Tirkey Sep 26, 2014

About the Author:

Ravi Subramanian is an Indian banker turned financial-crime writer. His books If God was a Banker, The Bankster, Devil in Pinstripes and The Incredible Banker are all bestselling titles. Mr. Subramanian is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore. He is currently the head of a leading financial institution. He has won the Economist Crossword Book Award twice for his previous books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books India
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0143421395
• ISBN 13: 9780143421399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328