Six Suspects: A Review

Review: Six Suspects
One murder ,six suspects, all suspected for the reason that they are in possession of a weapon at the murder site - the "Number six" farmhouse of Vicky Rai,the victim.Vicky Rai,an industrialist,a film producer,a spoilt brat of rich influential father.

Vicky Rai has been acquitted in a murder case ,thanks to his influential father Jagannath Rai -home minister of Uttar Pradesh.He has murdered a bartender,Ruby Gill, at point-blank just because she refused to serve him another drink.To celebrate his acquittal Vicky Rai has organised a party at his farmhouse inviting who's-who of the Delhi's political circles and page 3 celebrities.On the eve of this party some devise a plan to finish off Vicky Rai which includes his father as well.

Among the many who have sketched to kill Vicky is Mohan Kumar,a corrupt bureaucrat and a close aide of Vicky Rai.Mohan Kumar has been taken over by the spirit of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi when he attended a seance which was meant to bring the spirit of Gandhiji but beacause of some turmoil at the venue Mohan Kumar was occupied by Mohandas Gandhi.At one moment he would show the traits of true Gandhian like abstaining from alcohol but the very next moment he would turn into his usual self.The psychology termed his behaviour as DID-Dual Identity Disorder or split personality.The Gandhian in him decided to kill Vicky rai as the victim of Vicky's gun ,Ruby Gill,was a student of Gandhian philosophy.

The other person who wanted get rid of Vicky was his own father Jagannath Rai as Vicky was a hurdle for him in becoming the chief minister.Jagannath Rai's political career was in shambles thanks to acquittal of Vicky which was grabbing nation wide protests and the legislators or the party high command wouldn't like to be on the bad books of people by supporting the candidature of Vicky's father Jagannath Rai for chief ministership.

Munna mobile,a petty thief in Meharauli,is in love with Ritu Rai,sister of vicky, but the father-son duo are not happy with the alliance of Munna and Ritu but Ritu is adamant on her love for Munna.The adamancy draws ire from her brother and he beats
her up mercilessly leaving wound marks on her face seeing which Munna develops hatred for Vicky.Munna gets to know from his mother that Vicky had killed his father in
a BMW hit and run case which flares his anger for vicky even more and decides to take revenge for his father's death as well as Vicky's assault on his love interest Ritu.

The other suspects, a tribal called Eketi from Andaman is at the party venue to get a shivaling,which is the remedy for all the malaise happening back in his island, back to his island which is in possession of Vicky.

Shabnam Saxena,heartthrob of millions of youth is at the party to seek help of Vicky and the last suspect Larry page,an impostor,under the name of Rick Meyers as a hollywood producer is at the party with a gun provided to him by a CIA operative.

The book narrates how each of the six suspect end up at the party venue,their motives and finally digging the truth.The plot does not loose its sheen throughout and urges the reader to turn page after page.It is gripping till the end in a quest to reveal who the killer is.The author brilliantly puts all the current events happening around into a book like the Jessica Lal murder case,BMW hit and run case, terrorism, underworld and politics nexus,hunting of endangered species etc.

The characters of shabnam saxena and larry page could have been done away with as they are mere suspects but they dont have any motive to kill Vicky Rai.