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{/googleAds} Mehra, 79, is the former Africa Correspondent of The Statesman. A cancer survivor, he has been admitted to a Delhi hospital for the past seven years, where he wrote the novel in-between episodes of cardiac arrest. Chander survived through trying times during the regimes of African tyrants as well as during the emergency in India (1975-77).

In one African state, Chander was detained without trial thrice because his commentaries were inimical to the dictatorial regime. Chander Mehra's published books include ‘Corruption’ dealing with the devil and a novel Jihad Rediscovered, banned by some Islamic states.

The thriller released here centres around a holocaust being hatched against infidels world-wide by a fake Khalifa. To start with there is an attempt to assassinate the pope, the plan timely foiled by an idealist editor Hari Nath Rai of Verdict Today, a newspaper that claims to be free and fearless.

The novel is packed with intrigues, romantic adventures, betrayals and perversions. As Hari Nath Rai strategises with his two new friends an American girl Anne Spenser and a British undercover CIA agent, the story moves on a fast pace, their war against false Jihad taking them through several gates of Hell: Hate, Lust, Greed and Opportunism.