An Emperor Asoka started a project around 260 BC to collate and guard advanced knowledge gathered from around the world over the years. The project ended with making the nine books of secret knowledge and from then on, the nine different men are assigned to guard the nine books. Father Cyprian, a Christian priest, believes that their contents total tip the almost absolute of evil, and wants to burn them, so he invites Jimgrim and his faithful compatriots Ramsden and Ross to help him bring down the secret society that holds the nine books.

261 BC: After his bloody battle with Kalinga, the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, overcome with remorse, swore never to wage another war. And to make sure no one else did. His Navratnas—the Nine—zealously guarded their powers and knowledge, handing them down through millennia and generations to ensure lasting peace. EXCEPT THAT IT WAS NOT TO BE! From the corpses of the Kalingan warriors rose an angry spirit bent upon avenging the Kalinga empire, destroying the Nine and using their hidden knowledge to rule the world and change its destiny. PRESENT TIME The bloodthirsty warrior has possessed the body of a young man, making him hunt down and kill the Nine one by one. It is now up to the chosen Trinity—nurse Tara, DJ Akash and forensic expert Zubin—to stop him. This first book in a trilogy of fantasy thrillers churns up an astonishing tale from the depths of ancient times!

Mixed with facts and fiction, The Tenth Unknown is a thriller stretch across ages. Covering Magadha in the year 232 BC, where Emperor Asoka sits on the throne of India, and extending till 1947, when India gains independence, this suspense thriller has a historical backdrop with traces of mythology. A set of nine books by Emperor Asoka describe the world’s best secrets, which when combined together offer the reader boundless power and wealth. The emperor appoints a secret society to safeguard these books; this responsibility has been passed on from legacy, generation after generation. The ruins of Nalanda hold the keys to locating the nine books which, on unison, will lead the reader to supremacy. Prithvi, is satisfied in his convenient life that revolves around the game of cricket, but he soon finds himself dragged into a race. Prithvi’s grandfather, who is a member of the secret society, insists that Prithvi must trace all the books and secure them. Meanwhile Adolf Hitler is in possession of one of these books and wants to trace the others. He appoints an unconventional Nazi officer, Joseph Heilder, to complete this task. Prithvi must now race against Heilder to solve the secrets that the ruins of Nalanda nest. In a rat-race between good and evil, who will the odds favour? This mythological fiction uncovers a thrilling story that keeps the reader on edge till the end.

The historical novel ‘Ashoka the Great’ is the life story of one of India’s greatest monarchs, living in the 3d century B.C. The Ashoka-chakra, the wheel of Dharma, adorns since India’s independence the Indian flag. His nearly 40 years’ government is viewed today by scholars as the first welfare state the world has known. In part 1 of the trilogy, The Wild Prince, we see how his passionate but honest character leads him often into difficulties. He is praised for his pride and courage yet feared for his direct tough actions, looking through the trickery of enemies. As the successor of his father he becomes The Wise Ruler, part 2, a governor ruling with wisdom, strict laws and justice. After a terrible war in which numerous people lost their life, he embraced Buddhism, forswearing all wars of attack. After years of ruling, applying the wisdom of Gautama the Buddha, he becomes Dharmashoka, the great admonisher, part 3.

Through his third century BCE quest to govern the Indian subcontinent by moral force alone, Ashoka transformed Buddhism from a minor sect into a major world religion. His bold experiment ended in tragedy, and in the tumult that followed the historical record was cleansed so effectively that his name was largely forgotten for almost two thousand years. Yet, a few mysterious stone monuments and inscriptions miraculously survived the purge. In Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor, historian Charles Allen tells the incredible story of how a few enterprising archaeologists deciphered the mysterious lettering on keystones and recovered India's ancient past. Drawing from rich sources, Allen crafts a clearer picture of this enigmatic figure than ever before.