Who painted my money white by Sree Iyer

"Who painted my money white" by Sree Iyer - More fact than fiction?

This book is self published by Sree Iyer in 2019 and has 288 pages. This is Book 1 of Money Trilogy.

As per the author,  this is a fiction inspired by real events about fake currency and note bandi. 

Author uses real life characters with altered names, so little is left to reader's imagination. The finance minister Maida is from Chennai and has left the ruling party to form his regional party and later rejoined ruling party. Prime minister Dhillon is from world of academics and has been Governor of RBI and is called accidental PM. Party supremo Madam pulls the strings. Biplap Banerjee should have become PM, but was overlooked as he was not 'manageable' by party supremo. Dalpat Dalvi is a slippery politician without morals who has floated his own regional party. Home minister changes 4 outfits in a day. Maker Wirewala, a flamboyant man with penchant for using heavy English even for small things and with a very active sex life worked at UN once. The list goes on..

The story starts from ruling  party installing puppet Prime Minister and continues through spate of scams, ministers following orders of party chief rather than PM, more scams, friction between PM and party chief, elections, rise of the chief minister of Gujarat, opposition winning general elections, new dynamic PM, media campaign against him, note bandi. Sounds familiar?

In between this there is black money, fake currency and terrorism. Author spends a lot of page space for the events that we already know, rather than the fiction part of the story, thereby leaving little space for the main story (fiction). Assassination attempt is not dramatic enough. Instead of manufacturing weapon in India, why Pakistan doesn't simply smuggle it?

Author's writing could have been better. With so much masala, the author should deliver a compelling story that sounds like a movie. But more often than not it sounds like a news report.

Second book of this series is already published. 

Why did I read this book? I saw a clipping of author taking about this book. 

What did I like? Boldness. Author does not disguise. 

What I didn't like? Story telling. 

Recommend reading, if you want to relive past events with some masala added to it.