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Toxic Spirits is a highly atmospheric thriller set in Thailand, a playground for colorful expats, gorgeous women and limitless skullduggery. Narrated with insightful meditations on nature and biodiversity, interspersed with macabre violence and dark hilarity, the novel is also a brilliant, genetics-inspired take on multiculturalism and personal identity. Benton, a widowed African-American intelligence analyst from Washington, retires to Thailand. At an expat bar, he is captivated by Siri, a beautiful tribal singer. When Siri disappears, he discovers that she had been speaking out about the side-effects from drug trials conducted on her hill-tribe. Benton's investigations draw him uncomfortably close to Pierre, the seriously disturbed Indo-Cambodian doctor running the trials. Becoming an unwilling guinea-pig in the trials, Benton is transformed by the genetically-engineered drugs and falls in love with Mimi, a stunning and gifted young Thai-Australian muay thai boxer. As the genetic manipulations spiral out of control, spreading to the botanical treasures of Thailand's Golden Triangle, the forces of tribal healing, high-tech medicine, and love battle to determine who will survive.

A retired Indian man visits his son in New Jersey. On a walk, he encounters aliens. Fantasy Planet is about their interaction.In Half-Knowledge: Zeeshan Ali, aka Zee, a young engineering student, is a genius. He creates a gadget which can read minds, but his experimental trials take him on some dangerous adventures. Can his intelligence save him?Himalayananda is a story of two greedy businessmen, Bhatia and Ved, who chance upon a hermit. They name him Himalayanada and try to make some money by auctioning him. But what quirk of fate leads Pushpa, a Tollywood heroine, to bid for him? In The Card Game, a group of retired couples decide to spend a day in a resort playing cards. But things take a turn as crimes unfold in the cottages around theirs and reach a climax when a dead body is found. Emotions run high as they discover that the games being played don't just involve a deck of cards!From property fights and human frailties and emotions to interactions with alien life and the link between God and aliens, this book holds much more within its pages. Hyderabad-Jersey Tales is an interesting, inspiring collection of stories and poems that have a backdrop of either Hyderabad or New Jersey.