A cardboard box is found on a shelf of a London library where a copy of Mahabharata should have been. When the mystified librarian opens it, she screams before she falls unconscious to the floor. An elite group calling itself the Lashkar-e-Talatashar has scattered around the globe, the fate of its members curiously resembling that of Christ and his Apostles. Their agenda is Armageddon. In the labyrinthine recesses of the Vatican, a beautiful assassin swears she will eliminate all who do not believe in her twisted credo. In Tibet, Buddhist monks search for a reincarnation while in strife-torn Kashmir, a tomb called Rozabal holds the key to an ancient riddle. Father Vincent Sinclair, has disturbing visions of himself and of people familiar to him, except that they seem located in other ages. He goes to India to piece together the violent images burnt onto his mind. Shadowing his every move is a clandestine society, which would rather wipe out creation than allow an ancient secret to be disclosed.
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Ashwin Sanghi is counted among India's highest-selling English fiction authors, having sold over two million books. He has written several bestsellers in his Bharat Collection (The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant, The Krishna Key, The Sialkot Saga, Keepers of the Kalachakra, The Vault of Vishnu, The Magicians of Mazda and The Ayodhya Alliance) and two New York Times and Sunday Times (UK) bestselling crime thrillers with James Patterson: Private India (sold in the US as City on Fire) and Private Delhi (sold in the US as Count to Ten). He has conceptualized the Kutta Kadam crime series, in which the first novel, Razor Sharp, is a national bestseller. He mentors, collaborates and edits several non-fiction titles in the 13 Steps Series, and is a regular contributor to the opinion page of The Times of India.
Ashwin has been included by Forbes India in their Celebrity 100 list and by The New Indian Express in their Culture Power List. He is a winner of the Crossword Popular Choice Award 2012, the Atta Galatta Popular Choice Award 2018, the WBR Iconic Achievers Award 2018, the Lit-O-Fest Literature Legend Award 2018, the Kalinga Popular Choice Award 2021, the Deendayal Upadhyaya Recognition 2023, the Gomti Devi Eminence Award for I Am Literature 2026, the Peacekeeper Champion Award 2026 and Bhutan's JSW Prize in Literature 2026. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from JECRC University, Rajasthan.
Ashwin was educated at the Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, and St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He has an MBA from Yale University.