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R. Shankar

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R. Shankar is the author of fiction that cuts across industries — finance, corporate power, aerospace, crime, and the machinery of modern India. He writes about the men who build empires and the ones who burn them down. With years spent studying how industries actually work from the inside, he brings the kind of authenticity that can't be faked.
His standalone novel Dust to Ashes is a multigenerational saga spanning nine decades of ambition, betrayal, and consequence. The Fixer follows a market manipulator across three decades of Indian financial history. Both stand alone as complete stories.
Wingspan and Event Horizon are the first two books of The Ignition Trilogy — a series that follows the men behind India's most ambitious aerospace and d ...more

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	THE FIXER: A Financial Thriller 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dust to Ashes: A Novel on the Two Faces of Power it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	WINGSPAN: A Novel of Ambition, Aerospace, and Indian Industry (THE IGNITION TRILOGY Book 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	EVENT HORIZON: A Novel of Aviation, Power, and the Edge of the Sky (THE IGNITION TRILOGY Book 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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