Operation Trojan Horse: A Novel Inspired by True Events

Abhishek Sharan is a senior crime journalist, who has spent the past twenty years roaming the gullies and mohallas of Mumbai and Delhi tracking gruesome murders, startling suicides, bomb blasts, gang wars and financial scams. He has reported from the sites of terror attacks in the national capital, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Mumbai, Bangalore and Malegaon. He has written extensively on the investigations as well as the human toll of these atrocities. Abhishek has pursued multiple e-courses to better understand the global terror landscape, including Threat of Nuclear Terrorism (Stanford University), Terrorism and Counter-terrorism (Georgetown University) and Understanding 9/11 (Duke University). A history graduate from Patna, Abhishek moved to Mumbai to pursue post-graduation in Advanced Media Studies from St Xavier's College. He started his career at The Indian Express and later went on to work for Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and, most recently, Mumbai Mirror, where he was Senior Assistant Editor. Divya Prakash Sinha is a 1979-batch IPS officer who joined the Intelligence Bureau in 1987 and spent around twenty-eight years of his career there looking after counter-terrorist and security operations. He is credited with neutralizing a large number of terror modules in the country. After rising to the level of Special Director in the IB, he also served as Secretary (Security) in the Cabinet Secretariat, from where he superannuated in 2015. He is a recipient of the Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Services and the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Services. After superannuation, he was selected for the post of Central Information Commissioner by a high-level panel headed by India's Prime Minister. Sinha is an honours graduate in physics from Patna University. As an IPS officer, he began his career in Tripura, holding various positions, including of a district SP and SP, CID.