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Journalism of Courage
Making the Minister Smile
Anurag Mathur
By Penguin India
Price: Rs 200
FIRST published in 1996, this is The Inscrutable Americans reversed. It is not as humourous as its predecessor but makes you laugh occasionally, if not often. It drags until it suddenly jolts you, making you sit up and chuckle. Chris Stark travels all the way from the US to New Delhi after his father enters into a collaboration with KapCo Pvt Ltd. The 6-ft-4-inch, 300 lb former football player is soon lost among the inscrutable Indians. He is caught in the hurly burly of the corporate world and the ubiquitous politicians. Having come to help sort out the labour crisis KapCo has run into, he learns the only mantra that will keep the problem at bay is, make the minister smile.
Something Wild
By Linda Davies
Publisher: Headline
Price Rs pound;5.99
If it didn8217;t have such a strained in -your-face style and wasn8217;t so obsessed with the protagonist8217;s breasts they8217;re either pumping, lactating or just heaving their way into every page, this Nancy Drew-meets-Mills and Boon might have kept you 8216;8216;awake till dawn8217;8217;, as the blurb reads. But as financial trader Sarah Jenson8217;s lovelife and mindless ramblings take to the fore thrusting the mystery-thriller bit to after mid-way, you tend to lose interest in bystanders like the rock star seeking securities or the serial rapist on the prowl. Would have preferred the Nancy Drew or the M038;B. Fewer pages. 8212;
