Verdict: An interesting quick thriller read that uncovers a newspaper’s integrity and challenges the basic morals of reporting.
Rating: 3/5
Available at: Any leading bookstore
Publisher: Grey Oak
Price: 245 INR
With a dangerous blend between fiction and reality comes Oswald Pereira’s The Newsroom Mafia. Given the crime reporting background of Pereira, this book only becomes a little too real for any newspaper enthusiast’s liking.
Following the life of a formidable Mafia, the invincible Don, Narayan Swamy and his strong enemy Supercop Donald Fernandez, this piece of work will definitely keep you biting your nails from start to finish. Pereira narrates this story with hardly a dull moment, throwing in surprise after shock, leaving the reader itching for more.
The characters in the story are beautifully portrayed and again, are just too real. A humble, sober and witty Don with his world full of cash, connections and power opposed by the strong, handsome anti-corruption Super-Cop ready to take on this powerful Don backed with sadly, just his police force. But that’s not where this war ends. A powerful weapon is suddenly used by both sides heavily and mercilessly: The Media.
Pereira shows a nasty cruel world of print where reporters and editors are not bought, but lured, tempted, and almost seduced into the world of the Don. While there is enough in the book for one to claim that it could be a Bollywood script, it’s the characters and the ending that makes the book definitely worth the read.
In a world like the one we live in today where money is used as a means for anything and everything, it comes to no surprise that stories in factual and informative papers can be covered, for no other reason except political propaganda.
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