The Mine- Arnab Ray (review bt Rinol Job)

"The Mine" is about a mine where Marvel amount of energy crystals are mined. A team of experts is brought in to investigate the err goings on that have religious connotations. But the book is really a thriller with murders, large, titillating doses of sex, and pulp philosophy, psychology  and technology thrown in for good measure. The structure of Ray’s story is not uncommon — the dramatise personae are trapped and their lives play out through flashbacks, with tension building up as their narratives unfold.The book has clever twists and turns the story takes and the way disjointed pieces come together. The end especially is a tour de force of masterful plotting. Arising from distortions of human nature, these twists and turns in the plot leave the reader aghast. Just when you think evil couldn’t get any more evil, Ray presents an even more satanic face of humanity. Progressively, the book descends into purgatory peopled as it is with the most depraved specimens of humanity,scheming scientists who will stop at nothing to attain their filthy ambition, a female archaeologist with an insatiable hunger for sex, a clinical psychologist who gives false testimony against an actor to avenge the rape she had been subjected to, children molested by sexual perverts, an elderly doctor indulging in sado-masochism, an innocent-looking beast waiting patiently for his gory pound of flesh.Everything is correctly packed. Basically he wants to convey that every sinner has to pay the price for his sins. And the punishments are as deadly as their sins itself.

At one point, even you will think like Dr. Karan. "Makes you wonder if God himself is evil? Or whether what we consider the design of the devil is actually nothing but the will of God?"Thus like a mission accomplishment the book ends,with that question still unanswered..