I generally like Hussain Zaidi's stories from the world of crime and picked this up. It's a bunch of stories about a RAW hit man called Agent Lima about whom another NSG Commando Lucky Bisht who watched him in action speaks. Agent Lima is a legendary hit man who is under the guidance of Col Sobhraj. The stories are peppered with conversations between Lucky Bisht and Hussain Zaidi who meet in various places in Mumbai and Lucky narrates the stories.
Stories range from Agent Lima stopping a massive fake currency operation from Kathmandu by eliminating the king pins - he starts his work from within Almora's jail and goes to the main kingpins and completes the dangerous mission - poisons the target with thallium. Another time he targets seven militants of a separatist group who blew up a Police Station and killed police personnel. In another he captures a high profile ISI officer Lt Col Zahir in Kathmandu as a bargaining chip for a captured double agent Jadhav.
In another story he takes out an agent who in involved in creating trouble in Bangladesh for the Mukti Bahini, posing as cable TV operators. In one botched operation which almost ended his career Agent Lima does not find out the mission details despite getting a lead and it results in an ambush of army personnel who die. In another he gets a militant to surrender and act as an informant - an operation in which the militants girl friend dies. The use of a Israeli agent as a honey trap to capture the killer of four soldiers in Dimapur is another.
In each of the operations they also refer to well known secret service operations such as Mossad's capture of Otto Adolf Eichmann, the Bay of Pigs failure, the Iran Contra deal failure, the role of Dr Shakil Afridi in the capture of Osama Bin Laden, of Khun S opium king, of Sylvia Raphael the Israeli agent.
Nice stories. But did not enjoy the style in which they were told. Bottom of my Zaidi books.
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