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Breach 
by 
Amrita Chowdhury


The Blurb

How secure are your secrets in the virtual world?  Weeks before pharma-giant Acel is ready to file a global patent application for cancer wonder-drug Colare, its offshore data centre in Mumbai is hacked. The charismatic, young leader of its Indian business, Dr Udai Vir Dhingra, finds himself being blamed for negligence and breach of security. Battling market pressures, media scrutiny, livid American bosses and crumbling relationships, Vir must find the perpetrators, or see his career – and his life – spiral downwards. But the deeper he gets dragged into the shadowy world of masked online identities and muddied digital footprints, the more Vir discovers that nothing is easy or obvious, and everything has a price. Set across Mumbai, Washington and Guangzhou, Breach is a compelling and edgy cyber thriller that explores the dark and dangerous underbelly of our increasingly virtual existence

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Meet the Author
Amrita Verma Chowdhury is the author of Faking It, an art crime thriller about fake modern and contemporary Indian art.
She holds engineering degrees from IIT Kanpur and UC Berkeley, where she was a Jane Lewis Fellow, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon (Tepper Business School). Her work as an engineer in Silicon Valley led to seven US patents for semi-conductor fabrication – something to show for those bad-haired days. She has done Strategy Consulting and Board Effectiveness work in the US and Australia and has spent long nights fitting five-syllable words inside two-by-two squares. She has worked in the rarefied bastions of Ivy League education bringing together ideas and people. She currently works in publishing.
She lives in Mumbai with her husband Sumit, their two children Shoumik and Aishani, and an assortment of pets including a cocker spaniel, a guinea pig and two turtles. She loves travelling, baking cupcakes with her daughter and hearing from her readers.



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MY REVIEW:        

The first thing I did, after I finished reading ‘Breach’ was, to buy the costliest Anti-spyware software out there for my machine. I’m sure many of the readers would follow suit, after they read how vulnerable their cyber secrets are.

‘Breach’ is a fast paced, spine-chilling tale of espionage, mixing the two diverse worlds of pharmacy and IT.  It’s about Colare, a miracle drug that is being secretly developed by the pharma giant, Acel. Somehow the secret data involving Colare, starts leaking out of Acel’s offshore unit in India, and the person heading the unit, Vir, is being held responsible for it. 

How could that happen, after all those hi-end security measures that they had taken? Will Vir be able to fix the crime? Will he be able to catch the culprit? Is one of those rival pharma companies in China, behind the conspiracy? Or is it just a college drop-out kid in Mumbai, who’s doing all this for fun, or may be for some extra pocket money to buy that shiny new laptop he had eyes on?

The author takes you on an uber-fast roller-coaster ride, showing glimpses of the dark underbelly of the cyber world and corporate espionage. Be prepared to see the dirty by-lanes as well as the shining, sparkling super-highways of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, China and U.S.A. 

Congratulations are due to the author, for this very well researched and crisply written novel. 

Buy your copy today.  :)



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