Saurabh Chawla

“Intelligence is built on deception. Trust nothing. Not even the mirror.”
― Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, The Hunt for Kohinoor

“Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.”
― Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, The Hunt for Kohinoor

“Eventually, there is one principle, and one principle alone on which the world is hinged: things will work out the way they should, provided we do what we should.”
― Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, The Hunt for Kohinoor

“The CIA has a great reputation and a terrible record. It relies on machines, not men, to understand the other side. They counted Soviet weapons with spy satellites but never figured that in the meantime communism was crumbling. They poured billions into Afghanistan to give the Russians their Vietnam – which they did, only by ending up breeding an entirely new menace, the Islamic jihadis. They claimed the existence of WMD in Iraq and provided a war-mongering President with a pretext for war. Want me to go on?’ Harry snorted.”
― Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, The Hunt for Kohinoor