About the Book: Antisocial
Arun Krishnan takes the Indian-in-America novel screaming into noir territory
with this fast-paced, gorily entertaining serial-killer thriller.-Nilanjana Roy
It is a cool summer evening in New York and Arjun Clarkson, a bright young ad
agency executive, is having a drink with his ex-colleague, Emily Hayes. For
years, Arjun has suffered due to his miserable childhood in an Indian orphanage,
his low-caste birth and the pointed cruelty of an abusive foster mother. Unaware
of his past, Emily triggers a disturbing memory and Arjun ends up killing her.
To lead the police astray, Arjun begins to exploit the loopholes of the virtual
world to wreak vengeance