A young man’s need for respect and his search for love enables him to be coerced into becoming an undercover cop. Follow this man to see how others see him and try to understand why the job he becomes obsessed with and his quest for love, tear him ap
An engineer by training, armed with powerpoint presentations alone, I switched tracks to writing fiction. A decade later. I have published two novels, several short stories, written for the New York Times and other newspapers, and won blogging awards.
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Author Bio: Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar trained as an engineer, graduated from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and worked in marketing, advertising and consulting. An award-winning writer (Commonwealth Broadcasting Association), she has written for several publications including the New York Times and the South China Morning Post.
Her debut novel, Earning the Laundry Stripes, was released in 2006 to critical acclaim, with India Today calling it ‘an enjoyable tale of a sassy girl’s headlong race up the corporate ladder…’ Her second novel, The Long Walk Home, released in 2009, has garnered critical acclaim and hit several bestseller lists in India. Gulzar has called it ‘a narrative of pain that knows no borders’. Khushwant Singh has hailed Manreet as ‘a gifted writer of great promise … a new star rising on Punjab’s literary horizon’. She has featured at several literary festivals including the Singapore Writers Festival and the Man Hong Kong Literary Festival.
Additionally, Manreet is an award-winning copywriter. She has won two Creative Abby awards at the Goafest 2010, the annual festival of the Advertising Agencies Association of India, and has also been shortlisted for the Cannes Lions 2010.
Visit her online at www.manreetsodhisomeshwar.com and http://the-long-walk-home.blogspot.comWebsite:http://the-long-walk-home.blogspot.com/
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