Let me be upfront. The Chola Tigers is the most ambitious of the books Amish Tripathi has written so far. This historical fiction, which is Amish’s genre, has moved to the next level of a thriller. A fast-paced, brutal thriller with enough twists and turns, mixing of history with fiction to come up with a heady cocktail, not tried to this level of action by him so far. Before someone tries to tell me to rethink my premise, let me tell the readers that I have read all the books of Amish Tripathi.

The earlier book in this series, Suheldev, was a pathbreaking book. It presented real history in the form of fiction. The Chola Tigers is a fiction created out of real-life historic figures. Suheldev was his attempt to bring to light a historic character that had disappeared from the national memo

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