The story begins with a wily Kremlin plot to ship a boatload of high-tech Russian and German arms to Argentina, and, in this way, spark the second Falkland War. The MI6's tardy attempts to derail the deal are wrecked by the German intelligence. While the British military are at their wits' end, two honest and uncompromising brothers, Englishmen from Holland, take the lead. After a series of dramatic, funny, seemingly impossible events, the arms ship finally deviates from its course and beaches on a rugged shore – little more than eight thousand miles away from its goal.

With its forty-four funny/ comical episodes, sandwiched between tough and dramatic ones, this novel is both full-blooded thriller and prime entertainer, for a price under fifty Rs.

The book also touches on deeper issues like truth, happiness, (gratifying) sex and invisible reality. 'My Brother, the Spy' was written to be a...