The Scammer’s Trail By Smarak Swain

Dr Gandhi Kumar, a beloved paediatrician in a quiet Delhi neighbourhood, lives a life of comfortable monotony. And then one morning, the Enforcement Directorate storms into his house and names him the prime suspect in a massive ransomware attack on the Government of India. Investigators have proof that account he owns has been used to move crores in stolen bitcoins.

His sister, Gamini, a firebrand with unrelenting resolve, is convinced that the Null Cyphers, an elusive cybercrime syndicate, has stolen her brother’s identity to create mule accounts. Determined to clear his name, she teams up with Brian Leatherman, the sharp-witted FBI attaché in the US embassy, and cybercrime sleuths from the I4C, the nodal agency that deals with cybercrime in India, to chase digital shadows through the alleys of darknet and shady crypto exchanges.

But the deeper she goes, the more dangerous it becomes.

Explosive and disturbingly plausible, The Scammer’s Trail is a razor-sharp legal-cyber thriller that pulls back the curtain on the shadowy world of digital crime and immoral cops, and the high price of truth.