Starmark launches 'The Girls behind the Gunfire'

Kolkata, Oct 22 (IBNS) Kolkata's leading bookstore chain Starmark on Friday evening hosted the launch of Trisha Ray's novel 'The Girls behind the Gunfire' at its South City Mall outlet.

The novel is published by Harper Collins Publishers India.

The Chief Guest at the launch was well-known writer and teacher Rimi B. Chatterjee, who also conducted an interactive session.

The novel is about an ordinary girl turning into a reluctant assassin.

Life can be hard when you're a dork. You're not pretty or popular, just intelligent and very bored with the world. And then you discover that one of your friends, dorkier than you and thrice as socially inept, has a major secret. One she could literally kill for.

Abhishikta is thrilled by the revelation that the nerdy Rikita is actually a lethal super-soldier, her geekiness belying the fact that she can kill everyone in a room, within five minutes, using a wooden table-leg.

Riki proceeds to induct Abhi into the Foundation, a secret organization that claims to exist only to serve human civilization. Not humanity, just civilization.

Abhi takes to martial arts and guns with a bloodthirstiness previously unsuspected by anyone, even herself. What she doesn't take to, however, is the fascist control exerted by the Foundation over its soldiers.

Trisha Ray is an undergraduate student of English literature at Jadavpur University.