Publisher's Synopsis
MULTI-LAYERED - PAGE TURNER - UNPUTDOWNABLE - EDGE OF THE SEAT THRILLER
END OF AN EXPERIMENT.
Five strangers on an island.
Go up the mountain.
With a friendly wolf and a dangerous snake.
Lone Survivor. Gets Enlightened.
BACK to the EXPERIMENT.
THE RESULTS?
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After completing a prolonged experiment, a doctor meets with an accident.Four days earlier, Roy, an Indian teacher lands on an unmapped island in the Indian Ocean. Roy's quest lies on top of the island's mountain.
On the island, he meets Camila, a scandal prone Spanish actress, Pushkin, a Russian oligarch on the run, General Mali, the deposed President of the Republic of Mali and Farhad, a former Iranian wrestler.
When they exchange stories of their journey to the island, they uncover similar goals, directed by different astrologers with an uncanny resemblance.
On their journey up the mountain, a wolf helps them and a snake challenges them. As they make progress and challenge each other's supremacy, it is evident there is more to the journey than first understood.
Finally, when one of them conquers the top, a strange conversation awaits...and a Dr. Walter West fits right into it.
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Arunesh Choubey's first book, The Migrant - A Biography was published in 2007. It was listed as number 1 bestseller in the Top 100 of Amazon's Australian Ethnic and National Biographies. It was given wide coverage in print and television media for its contribution to emigration issues afflicting Australia. The Astrologer's Curse is recommended for fans of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island, Hanya Yanagihara's The People In The Trees, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Karen M. McManus's One Of Us Is Lying, and Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist. It is also recommended for fans of movies: M Night Shyamalan's Split, Christopher Nolan's Inception and James Mangold's Identity.
