The Emperor's Riddles

When Om Patnaik talks numbers, they come alive and the conspiracies he hints at give his listeners goosebumps. But when his dearest friend dies on the ghats of Varanasi and his favourite conspiracy number jumps out at him, he is a man posessed. What begins as a need to know why his friend died and what the number 9 may have to do with it, ends in a journey across time and space where he constantly encounters hidden enemies and mentions of a source of immense power that has been around since ages, but never been tapped. In another time and space, a son is born to a king. A son born who will rule, though he isn't the first-born. A son, who as emperor, finally realised the capacity of humans to destroy. An emperor who decided that knowledge (read supreme power) must be hidden. He too discovered 9. - See more at: http://s338012045.onlinehome.us/book-details.php?id=78#sthash.cWIJ3l2J.dpuf