The Third Squad [Paperback]

Kumar evokes [Mumbai] with lyrical prose.
--Publishers Weekly

Included inPublishers Weekly'sCrime Fiction feature on police corruption and brutality.

A melancholy cop's obsessions are just the tip of the iceberg as he leads a two-fisted team determined to clean up Mumbai's mean streets...Kumar's style, blunt but often by turns poetic and droll, is arresting...As unusual as it is compelling, this entry lays the groundwork for an entertaining series.
--Kirkus Reviews

[A] gripping thriller...Kumar has created some thoroughly intriguing characters...but the most fascinating of Kumar’s characters is Mumbai itself--enormous, crowded, hyperactive, roiling, stunningly rich and grindingly poor, and teeming with almost unfathomable energy. International-crime fans should flock to this one.
--Booklist

Kumar does a masterful job building the storys tension level as Karan draws closer and closer to his final confrontation with his superiors in the Indian Police Service.
--Book Chase

The Third Squadis an arresting, ripped-from-the-headlines noir novel that deftly explores how in recent decades, to ostensibly combat the rising tide of criminality in Mumbai's underworld, the Indian Police Service has carried out many hundreds of extrajudicial assassinations of suspected criminals. Karan, an expert sharpshooter in an elite branch of the Indian police dispensed with dishing out this peculiar blend of vigilante justice, has a difficult choice to make: should he continue to blindly follow orders from his superiors, regardlesl³(