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Daylight Robbery (novel)
''Daylight Robbery'' is a thriller novel written by Surender Mohan Pathak Surender Mohan Pathak (born 19 February 1940 at Khemkaran, in Tarn Taran district near Amritsar, in the Majha region of Punjab) is an author of Hindi-language crime fiction with nearly 300 novels to his credit. His writing career, along with h ..., a Hindi writer from Delhi, India.Originally published in 1980 by Shanu Paperbacks, it was translated into English by Sudarshan Purohit and published by Blaft Publications, Chennai, India in 2010. It is the 8th novel in the ''Vimal'' series, and revolves around the robbery of a payroll van in Agra. The novel is unique in the sense that this is the first time Vimal engages in a crime for his own personal benefit (till now all he did was under threat of other hard-core criminals). Dawarkanath, an aged gambler from Agra, tells him of a great artist, a plastic surgeon called Dr. Earl Slater, who would operate ''only'' on wanted Indian criminals (for an amaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surender Mohan Pathak
Surender Mohan Pathak (born 19 February 1940 at Khemkaran, in Tarn Taran district near Amritsar, in the Majha region of Punjab) is an author of Hindi-language crime fiction with nearly 300 novels to his credit. His writing career, along with his full-time job in Indian Telephone Industries, Delhi, began in the early 1960s with his Hindi translations of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the works of James Hadley Chase. He also wrote his own James Bond series. His first short story, ''57 saal puraana aadmi'' (५७ साल पुराना आदमी, ''The Man 57 from Years Ago''), was published in a Hindi magazine ''Manohar Kahaniyaan'' (मनोहर कहानीयां) in 1959. His first full-length novel, Purane Gunah Naye Gunahgar (Sunil Series), was published in ''Neelam Jaasoos'' (a Hindi crime fiction magazine) in 1963. His major work began with what is called the "Sunil" series () which consists of at least 122 novels. Sunil, a debonair and uprigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
