THE EYE OF THE PREDATOR

'Zanghara, South Waziristan August 5, 2009: In a carefully orchestrated midnight attack, US drones zeroed in and killed the dreaded leader of the infamous Tehreek-e-Taliban as he lay with his wife on his father-in-law's terrace. The question is who tipped off the CIA?’ Baitullah Mehsud, the dreaded leader of the Pakistani Taliban, had grown too big for his boots. His delusions of grandeur, his manic dreams of ruling all of Pakistan, and his brazen and bloody terrorist acts, were making many people uneasy. The US, the ISI, the Karzai Government, the Government of Pakistan, and various splinter groups of the Taliban - all of who had, at one time or the other, partnered with him - now wanted him dead. A riveting, highly-informed conspiracy novel set in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the US, The Eye of the Predator is an arresting account of an unlikely group of men who slept with the enemy in a desperate bid to fight the monster of Pakistan.

About the Author
Abhisar Sharma is a television journalist with the TV Today Network, and has worked in the Indian television news industry for the last fifteen years. The Afghanistan–Pakistan region has always held a special fascination for him. His story ‘Laal Masjid Ka Safed Sach’ (The True Story of the Red Mosque) won him India’s highest journalism award, The Ramnath Goenka Indian Express award, 2008-2009. An avid foodie and traveller, Abhisar lives in the NCR region of Delhi with his wife and two children, whom he is crazy about.