Alice In Wonder

About the Book

Alice, a clear-headed carrier-woman married with 2 children, is set to ride the turf of International Relations. Then for a brief spell her life is set astir when she chances to meet a mystic who tells her she'd been 'noticed', and she'll have to go to India. Much against her will (and her husband's wishes) she arrives in Mumbai and is quickly swept in a whirlwind of event and happenstance. She then finds herself abandoned and desultory, at the feet of a wild man James who lives under a tree.

James, who'd occupied the chair of the physics department at a renowned institution about ten years prior, is now a recluse in the wild. Though he was a remarkable physicist, a bizarre brain condition leaves him suspiciously unsound; hence his untimely dismissal.

The story involves a mobster, who at the high-point of his life is stricken by the awakening of, what appears like the alter-ego. It begins as an indiscernible twist in the under-belly; but after some time, as it becomes more real that twinge, when he tries to fight it drags him deep in a chasm and he is completely helpless to stop it.

So in a final attempt, he chooses the one thing against his own nature. He chooses to be nasty to a woman. That, for some wacky reason, appears like the one option left to pluck him from this state.

The victim is Alice.

With the help of his good friend Michael Raj, a limousine driver he waylays the taxi on a lonely trunk road and takes her hostage.

About the Author

Sree Patmanathan, a medical practitioner by profession, had been enamored all his life by the subtle mechanics of the intellect. This story is just his way of bringing to the fore, an idea of how it functions and how it behaves. He has no past records or testimonies and this book is only his first attempt at a novel.