And all this just when the Bengaluru-based e-retailer is in the final stages of wrapping up its eighth round of funding. The inspector arrives on the scene when an executive working for a private equity investor, and involved in a due-diligence exercise of India’s sixth-largest online retailer, MyMagicHat, disappears amidst indications of an unexpected cash- crunch, followed by a massive data theft. In Saboteur, it’s left to the young motorbike-borne Inspector Dhruvi Kishore of the Bengaluru Crime Branch to find the villain who doesn’t shy away from murder in the relentless pursuit of pelf. While e-commerce is the villain responsible for this year’s anticipated loss of 147 million-square-feet of American retail space, the whodunnit in Raman’s fictional crime-thriller is revealed at the end of the book. With the traditional brick-and-mortar retail outlets expected to have their worst-ever year in the US, and with a Credit Suisse research report released this April predicting that 8,600 stores could close down in America in 2017 (the previous worst being 6,163 in the year of the meltdown of 2008), this thriller by R V Raman, which is set in the e-commerce world of Bengaluru, is topical.
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