This One Zips Between Wall Street and India (Hindustan Times, New Delhi and Gurgaon)
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Great Review by Book Geeks – Highly Recommended Light Read for All Kind of Fiction Lovers
Hello Folks, Good morning! Great Review
by Book Geeks!!! (http://www.bookgeeks.in/entries/general-fiction/where-angels-prey-ramesh-s-arunachalam-book-review)
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“Where Angels Prey tells the story of Bob who is a reporter with
an International Daily and how he unravels the level of deceit, corruption,
manipulative strategies, fraud in which Wall Street Firms and Financial Organizations
involve themselves under the pretext of “Making The World A Better Place”. A
classic case of taking up a moral cause of helping the poor, just to churn them
for their pennies.
It’s VERY well written, and easy to relate to, easy to gobble even
for people who find their Grisham slow and uninteresting.
FINAL WORD: Highly Recommended Light read for all kind of fiction
lovers. “
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Saturday, 9 May 2015
Book Review: Where Angels Prey by Ramesh S. Arunachalam
Where Angels Prey is a compelling and disturbing story of greed and exploitation on a massive scale
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(New York-May 2015) The inescapable truth of most every society is that the lives of its citizens can often be told in terms of money, often with negative consequences for the poor. Where Angels Prey is a work of fiction by Ramesh S. Arunachalam that lays bare this unfortunate truth and its dire consequences in rural India. Arunachalam weaves a sometimes sordid tale chronicling the world of the micro finance industry in Andhra Pradesh, India circa 2010.
While the world was on the brink of financial collapse due to the American-initiated financial crisis, the business of writing and granting small loans to India’s billion plus poor (called the Micro Finance Industry) was exploding across the globe as investment firms clamored to become part of this unseemly financial investment oasis. Originally designed to help lift India’s poor out of poverty, The Micro Finance Industry began a rapid transformation from protector to predator almost overnight.
Arunachalam’s story begins as a humble pursuit by a journalist in search of a mundane beat assignment story and quickly opens upon an unexpected vista of usury, corruption, manipulation, malfeasance and the sickening exploitation of India’s poor on a massive and global scale.
Striking an uncanny balance of story-telling and factual relevance, Where Angels Preyuncovers predatory exploitation on such a massive scale, it is dizzying at times. In 2010 when customers of Micro Finance companies in India start committing suicide in alarming numbers, it becomes clear that the Micro Finance lenders have turned to ruthless tactics in their lending and collection practices.
With a primary focus on lending to women, the tale exposes a brutal cultural and gender bias that exists in India’s class hierarchy. Families pledging women and children as loan collateral and lenders taking unspeakable liberties with females who are unable to repay their debts, challenges the conscience and constitution when reading Angels.
All this against a background of systemic corruption and privileged ruling class sets the reader up for a climactic scene of a hard fall and justice finally being served. However, that satisfaction is not delivered and the outcome is nothing short of confounding.
A modern day version of Buck’s The Good Earth, Where Angels Prey is a haunting reminder of the dark side of money and capitalism.
Behind Every Huge Fortune, There is a SUCCESSFUL Crime
Where Angels Prey is a rip roaring piece of (crime) fiction that travels from New York to India via many countries. At the very core, it is a story of extreme greed on the part of a few to amass a huge fortune. Just as Don Corleone says in Mario Puzo's 'The Godfather', "Behind every successful fortune there is a crime", the plot in Where Angels Prey has a whole gamut of characters, each of whom is an important link in the chain of events that lead to this massive global crime. And what is interesting is that, this UNIQUE and gripping plot is presented with all the twists and turns you would find in a commercial film screenplay almost.
While the rest of the world reels under a severe financial crisis, Wall Street pours huge money into India to help its poor - a somewhat strange happening indeed. Intrigued, Robert Bradlee, senior correspondent with The New York Post, sets off to investigate, along with his journalist friend, Chandresh. Little does he know that his search for a scoop would lead him through a complex multi-pronged web of deceit, fraud, manipulation and financial crime, remote controlled from distant lands by an entire chain of financial sector stakeholders.
Gripping, racy and meticulously researched, this financial crime thriller weaves in and out of the affluent world of high-powered boardrooms and the gruelling poverty of the remotest villages of India, to reveal the devastating truths that often lurk behind "good intentions."
A thrilling, intense and entertaining read, Where Angels Prey, has received very positive comments from several noted personalities :
- "Where Angels Prey is an engaging and touching story of the collision of altruism and aspiration. I found it a most enjoyable, but also most disturbing, read!" - Matthew Gamser (CEO, SME Finance Forum, International Finance Corporation, Washington DC, USA)
- "Where Angels Prey - What a wonderful read! I loved the book and most especially the philosophical puzzle of how it ends. This rip-roaring piece of fiction races the reader through the halls of the Mumbai and New York Stock exchanges and into the villages of Andhra Pradesh. Where Angels Prey exposes the worst of what can happen when commercial interests and desperation collide: a train wreck tragic in every way. At the heart of the story, as two journalists work unstoppably to interpret a rain of motives, they uncover why and how the angels prey." - Kim Wilson (Faculty, The Fletcher School, Tufts University)
- "Fantastic storyline, but startlingly realistic; written racily, yet in impeccable English. Interweaving fact and fiction, this novel is a creative and compelling read." - G R Swaminathan (Assistant Solicitor General of India)
- "Where Angels Prey is really an excellent read! Written with flair, verve and a superb eye for detail, this gripping novel, when made into a film, will be India's very own ‘Wall Street'!" - Milford J. B. Bateman (PhD, Freelance consultant on local economic development and Adjunct Professor of Development Studies, St Marys University, Halifax, Canada)
- "Wow, what an amazing, engaging, honest, searing tale! I absolutely adored this book. I started to read it and I was hooked. I could not put it down until I reached the end. Beautifully written, with not one word out of place, it gives a very clear and scary picture of what could and does go wrong … today. An amazing book which will stay with me," - Renita D'Silva (Author of ‘Monsoon Memories', ‘The Forgotten Daughter' and ‘The Stolen Girl')
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