The rogue spy by Kartika Sharma

​"The rogue spy" by Kartika Sharma - Unrealistic! 

This book is published by Kalamos Literary Services in 2022 and has 280 pages. This is ebook 1 of the series. 

Well the title tells you it’s a spy. It also tells you it’s a rogue spy. What it doesn’t say is that it’s a rouge female spy. She is Adhira Shekhawat. Ex military intelligence. Court marshaled. Dishonorable discharge. She heads the band of five international rogue spies. Adhira is the point of the rouge spies. She is master of disguises, beautiful, deadly at weapons and deadlier without them, doesn’t care for rules. She is hired by Rudhir Rajput, head of RAW on behalf of Government of India. They are also ex lovers. Someone has invented XRS, the deadliest radioactive weapon and it’s used against India. 

Why did Adhira and Rudhir breakup? Why does Rudhir hire Adhira? What is XRS? Can they unearth the plot? Will they come close again?

It’s a band of rogue spies, each one is the best one in his/her field. It includes: Patricia Myeres, a Canadian mafia heiress. She is in charge of logistics. Ava Paradis, a French. She is the best hacker in the world. Samuel Guttman, a weapons expert from Belgium. Frank Ivanek, a Slovak. He is the best analyst you can get. Then there’s Adhira, the leader. 

I know it’s a spy story and such a story will have seemingly impossible things, but this one breaks all boundaries. Either that or the author has created a fantasy in her zeal to create a fantastic story. Either way it appears artificial and hollow. Things like Ava hacking anything in minutes, Pakistani terrorists creating a parallel world in Iran, Adheera’s escape etc all look unreal. These are international hardened spies but loss of one team member devastates them and makes them lose hope like school kids. 

Rudhir is chief of RAW, in his forties. One would expect a person rising to such a position at young age to be an accomplished operator. But here he is shown almost like an idiot. He is surprised with technology, he is horrified with rule breaking, he is stunned by revelations. Very disparaging for a spy. The RAW chief goes to Islamabad on rescue mission. Naive. It gives an impression that Indian intelligence is full of buffoons. 

In short, it’s an attempt that doesn’t succeed. The story is artificial, unconvincing and unreal. And it’s not the end. A sequel or a series is in the offing. 

Why did I read this book? Interesting title. 

What I didn't like? Impossible things.

What did I like? Umm….

AVOID.