Product Description
Life can be hard when you re a dork. You re not pretty or popular just intelligent and very bored with the world around you. And then you discover that one of your friends, dorkier than you and thrice as socially inept, has a major secret. One she could kill for. Literally. 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, in any given situation, within five minutes, using a wooden table-leg. And 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. She begins to ask questions ... and things start getting really messy. An action-packed story about an ordinary-girlturned- reluctant-assassin, The Girls Behind the Gunfire is a book you do not want to miss.
About the Author
Trisha Ray is an undergraduate student of English literature at Jadavpur University. She lives in Kolkata with her family and a vintage collection of Polynesian stamps. In her spare time, she likes reading SF/F books, watching action movies in which everyone dies in the end, and practising roundhouse kicks on a resigned brown cushion in a vain attempt to get back into prime karateka form.