If you’ve gone this long without experiencing ‘Riding the De(mon)’, you’re in for a jam-packed thrill ride, made all the more influenced by its relationship to a real historical event (demon)etization. The story closely pushes many elements together. Everyone possesses mysteries but it is about how far you are willing to carry them and how long you want to shelter them.
Riding the De(mon) carries the story well with suspense in its nerve and takes the concept to a whole new level. The story also takes a dig at the black swan event in Indian history demonetization. At one stroke, 86 percent of the currency in circulation was demonetized, causing uproar, chaos, and enormous suffering to the common Indians. This book has a lot to add to the demonetization act and how different people take shady turns to glide their way through. The tale has two characters to look upon, The likely innocent banker Vikram who is an IT consultant with a bright-looking future who got trapped in fraud of crores, and Ashwini the committed journalist, who is after a big story for a hasty jump in her career. And now behind finding the culprits of her sister’s death. The two got intertwined in the middle of the story when Guruji makes his place on the suspect list of Ashwini who is also an inmate of Vikram in the jail. Story is beautifully depicted in the diligent city, Chennai. Maintaining the story under financial thriller, allows many stories of demonetization to float in this. The difficulty was well sheltered under the significance of the event. The book raises the question which no one ever talked about. Author Murali has devoted time well to make a mark with his words. Vikram who agrees against his fate, only to fall back into the world of corporate espionage and government corruption and intrigues, a run on a bank, and murder, Crosses paths with Ashwini and exposes the web of corruption. The lengthy and tricky plot takes us to Guruji who is a religious leader accused of murder and these characters are unknown of the circumstances there comes a point where all these characters cross each other’s path, which includes the revelation of these deceitful activities.
Murali Raghavan is a Chartered & Cost accountant from India. He is based in UAE for the past 29 years and is the co-founder of the company CFOSME, which enables SMEs to optimize their Cash From Operations with improved financial ecosystems. His experience with multi-national companies in retail & wholesale distribution, Information Technology, Real Estate and Hotel development, Risk Management & Insurance (Financial Advisor) gives him a wide range of skills and experience to add value to any organization. He lives in Dubai with his wife, parents, and two children. Riding the De(mon) gets us in the mood for a little suspense, and there’s no better way to scratch that itch than with a killer book. It doesn’t fail anywhere to get your heart pumping, making you turn the page at warp speed while also delivering an oddly comforting skepticism about what’s to come. Murali Raghavan the author has written a well-experimented story through which the author has tried hard to establish comprehension of the unhealthy conspiracy which were happening for years together. The book with financial and political touch along with suspense has a lot to be discovered yet. In recent years, there has been a renaissance of work on the theme of real-life events encircling fictional characters. This can be valued as a startling reaction to the improving suspicion surrounding the demonetization of the rights and secretly unfolds the conspiracy layers by layers. Some hidden reality that is well defended in the absence of awareness.
This influential book, with its contemporary background, speaks to the real, talks about fears, and goes around crisis, drama, and suspense. This notion is echoed in Murali Raghavan’s Riding the De(mon) where characters meet amid the chaos and discover the dark side of the story. With the help of different shades of characters and their stories, The Author has put light on the dark side of lives. While typical financial suspense fiction focuses on those at the tail end of the demonetization chain, author Murali Raghavan heightens the genre to new ridges in a collision of thriller and economic scenes. This is a novel that both history buffs and thriller fiction enthusiasts can get behind. In particular, the level of economic crisis with an element of good plot Murali Raghavan has no doubt gone to great lengths to get right setting the riding demon apart from the rest.
