Dr. Rajeev Kumar

Though there is marked improvement in English expression in book, but this book is just waste of time. Story is not structured well. Writer seems confused between detective suspense story and so called love story. It seems idea is taken from some 70's old movie. At least it can't be a cold case but the failure of investigation. Though it is descriptive ending, but climax is hurriedly written. May be inspired from a grade "B" movie. Chetan vha, affair with a married woman is not love story; it is adultery. It used to be a punishable crime under section 497 Indian penal code. In 2018, Supreme court scrapped section 497. Nonetheless, in armed forces, adultery is punishable crime. Yet in Hindu marriage act, adultry amounts to a mental cruelty, on which ground spouse can seek divorce. Somewhere in Novel adultery is glorified. It doesn't give good message to society. Ananya cheated Manish.

This book disappointed me. I am researching on Indian scenario of capital punishment. With enormous curiosity, I had bought this book. But found very little than I expected. This is is just a work of copy and paste. Author didn't go deep in writing account of these eleven cases. Many of the facts mentioned are wrong. In fact Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were not the first who were hanged in Independent India. If I compare with Sunil Gupta's "Black Warrant". This book is a superficial work. Whereas, Mr. Gupta gave very detailed and indepth account of hangings took place in Tihar Prison.