Nila Noor: The Blue Light

by R S Dhillon

A book written in Punjabi. Resham is a British Punjabi boy whose parents die in a serious accident whilst on holiday in Europe. As he has no other relatives he is taken to India where he stays with a strict religious aunt. They both tolerate each other. Six years later he has developed a friendship with Laal Chand who is an associate of a smuggler called Baldev Sidhu. Laal Chand tells Resham of the legend of a diamond called the Blue Light which is believed to be hidden somewhere by Ahmed Khan, who had duplicitly, stolen it from a Nawab. Resham's curiosity leads him to seek the diamond and before he knows it he is on the run from the law with Baldev, wanted for murder, globe trotting from Lahore to Venice, chasing a cursed legend..

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2007