Who painted my money red by Sree Iyer

"Who painted my money red" by Sree Iyer -  Money series continues!

This book is published by Sree Iyer in 2020 and has 355 pages. This is Book 2 of 'Money Series'.

Breakup 20-20 cricket league by media mogul Agrawal is killed by Indian cricket body (ICB) and ICB floats its own 20-20 league. A lot of money is to be made. Dubai is the center of a lot of activity. Multiple minor actresses are drugged and raped. A special forces commando is frustrated by army bureaucracy  and quits for private sector. There is a buzz that one or more politicians were castrated. 

What is in Dubai? Why are actresses drugged and raped? What is money - cricket connection? Is lust in the mix? Who is the castrator?

There are characters that have uncanny resemblance with real life characters. Dipika Sharma (political supremo who never becomes PM) has her finger in many pies. Maker Wirewala, an ex-UN representative, a man with a penchant to use obscure and flowery English is trying to buy a team for Deepika. Mamaji is a politician from Maharashtra who had left the freedom party, joined back and become CM, has national ambitions and has close links to underworld. Don, a bright Muslim youth from Mumbai who takes over underworld. Maida, the home Minister from south. Supremo, a south Indian minister brought up in north and who was sacked from cabinet. Assassination of PM by suicide bomber. Remember someone or something? Uncanny resemblance to real life characters?

This book takes an inside look at money, show biz, lust and cricket. How cricket makes money and how it attracts politicians, black marketers, huge money, wannabe and struggling actresses and models and then how it results in chaos and exploitation. 

The narration is not uniform. There are errors of continuity and references. Sequence of events is some times garbled. Some of the chapters appeared to be out of sequence. Author gets way laid on the story of Dilawar and spends too much page space. Connection between obscene email and Dubai had no grounds. There is a 7 year time leap and then the book suddenly ends. 

Author hasn't tied all the loose ends. What happens to Rocky's symptoms? Are any other politicians targeted? What happens to the promise of castrator to the ladies? What happens to the three actresses? Are there any more castrations? Some of them may be on purpose for final book of the trilogy, but can't be all. So the story appears incomplete. 

Why did I read this book? First book was ok. 

What I didn't like? Lack of continuity, untied ends. 

What did I like? Closeness to facts. 

Not a must read.