After years of efforts, and a lot of help from my writer friends, I have completed my first novel titled No Return, a political thriller of about 82,000 words, set primarily in Pakistan, India, the United States, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka.
No Return delves into a unique subject that, I believe, has not been touched in the thriller genre otherwise full of excellent works: The likelihood of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan, not withstanding the recent thawing of animosity between them. No Return explores the historic injustices that motivates its characters and takes the reader on a journey of the Indian Subcontinent’s complex geopolitics and culture. While fictional Islamic terrorists are often one-dimensional hate-mongering fundamentalists, Azim is a rather complex character, a victim and a product of internecine feud between Pakistan’s native Sunni majority and Shia minority that migrated to Pakistan in 1947 upon partition of India.
Although interest in the South Asian geopolitics has rapidly grown, the South Asian authors have generally not addressed it through the thriller genre. Other established international thriller writers have not dwelled much in it either to the best of my knowledge.
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