डॉक्टर चन्द्रशेखरन ने एक ऐसे एटॉमिक शस्त्र का अविष्कार किया था जो अपने आस-पास एक वर्ग मील के क्षेत्र में समूल जीवन का नाश कर देने में सक्षम था । लेकिन फिर एक दिन बड़े ही रहस्यपूर्ण हालातों में डॉक्टर चन्द्रशेखरन का उनके शस्त्र समेत अपहरण कर लिया गया ! आखिर कौन था इस अपहरण के पीछे ?
Surender Mohan Pathak, is an author of Hindi-language crime fiction with 314 books to his credit. His major characters are Crime reporter Sunil (unprecedented 123 Titles), Vimal (46 Titles) and Philosopher Detective Sudhir (23 titles). Apart from series, he has written 60+ Novels in thriller category.
ये किताब डॉक्टर चंद्रशेखरण को किडनैपर्स से बचाने की कहानी हैं जिसमें रामू औऱ कैप्टेन ब्राउन का अहम किरदार होता हैं.
बहुत सारी घटनाये जैसे ठाकुर विक्रम का मरना, लिंकन पर चालाकी से पहुंचना औऱ सुनील का हवेली में घुसना बिल्कुल हजम नहीं होती..... ज़ब विक्रम इतनी बड़ी कोठी में रहता हैं तो कितनी आसानी से सुनील उसको किडनैप कर लेता हैं. मुझे तो बहुत औसत किताब लगी हैं.
चुंकि कहानी 60,70 के दशक की हैं तो उस दौर के हिसाब से पठनीय किताब हैं.
Khatarnak Apradhi features Sunil Chakravarty as an undercover agent working for the IB. Col. Mukherji, the leader of the spy ring, assigns Sunil and retired Air Commander Ramu to a top secret mission: to rescue abducted scientist Dr. Chandrashekaran, whose latest invention 'Destroyer' has been stolen despite top security.
This novel is a fast paced and engaging thriller. From the beginning to the very end, the pace never slackens. There is hardly a superfluous sentence in the entire novel and Pathak packs twists aplenty during the course of the narration.
Investigative journalist Sunil Chakravarty has featured in over 120 novels to date, but this one belongs to a separate series of novels authored by Pathak in the late 60s and early 70s, in which Sunil is an undercover agent, while appearing to the outside world as a journalist. Characters like Ramakant, newspaper owner Malik, Pammi (a fixture in the early Sunil series novels in the 1960s), Johri and Superintendent Ramsingh (another regular character until the mid 70s) do not turn up at any time. And so for ardent Sunil fans, this novel might be something of a let down.
Nonetheless, the novel makes for interesting reading- more for a historian. Not only is it entertaining, it gives glimpses into the general worldview of a person living in the late 60s, when the Soviet Union and the USA were the two major world powers and India was but an insignificant, still newly independent nation recovering from devastating droughts.
Last, but not the least, is the twist that Pathak gives at the very end- it was the first time he did it, but by no means the last!