Amrit

The Story One assignment. A trail no one can afford to leave open. Amrit—a Sikh woman and former military intelligence operative who now works as a freelancer—has agreed to protect Serena Chen Xiaoyun. Given her experience, the assignment seems straightforward. Serena, a young financial controller, has uncovered payments that have no right to exist in the books of a conglomerate with contracts in three ministries and friends in every room that matters. Within hours, a private army is hunting them both. At Amrit's side are Li Wei, trained for twenty years at Shaolin, and her husband Arjun, a military pilot who keeps his nerve when every route appears closed. Their escape leads through Singapore's temples and hidden passages, into the Malaysian jungle, through Kuala Lumpur, across the Malacca Strait, through Sumatra, and into the alleys of Jakarta. But the deeper Amrit digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. What began as corporate fraud leads to the electronic shadow of a nation's newest weapons—and to enemies who can buy almost anyone. Almost. Amrit has a kara, a kirpan, a dupatta, a steel chakkar, three decades of daily training—and no intention of losing. A high-stakes Southeast Asian thriller about corruption, friendship, love and loyalty—and the things money cannot buy. Why Singapore? We live in a world torn by ethnic, racial, and religious disputes, where corruption has become daily news. In the middle of it stands a tiny state that meets every condition for hosting all of these conflicts at once: four official languages, three major religions, Chinese, Malays, Indians, and expatriates from everywhere, pressed onto an island smaller than an average city, with no natural resources, not enough water, and no room to spare. Singapore chose otherwise. It chose to…