There's an overwhelming sense of dread in the first chapter of Private Delhi (Random House; Rs 399). Private Delhi, the second novel born of Ashwin Sanghi and James Patterson's literary partnership, sails along the unsettling seas of organ harvesting in Delhi. Fact, as usual, turned out to be stranger than fiction," says Sanghi, adding, "I knew absolutely nothing about the underground organ trading network. The first book, Private India, had elements of mythology in it. Private Delhi has none of that.

Source: India Today February 19, 2017 10:24 UTC