The Fifth Player – Paperback

Five players.
Five crore rupees on the felt.
One soundproof VIP suite in a luxury floating casino anchored mid-stream in the Mandovi River.

The cards were dealt at twelve in the morning. By one-forty-five, the champion was bleeding out on his chips. No needles. No poison in the glass. No one left the room.

Summoned through a violent midnight squall before the storm cuts the vessel off from the mainland, Inspector Dev Kamat of the Goa Crime Branch steps into a labyrinth of high-altitude bluffs, offshore hawala ledgers, and deadly biological warfare.
Inspector Dev Kamat is holding the cards now. And everyone at this table is bluffing for their lives.