In a high-stakes tale of secrecy and intrigue, a covert Indian rogue agent, Agent Agastya, also known as K1 2520, embarks on a perilous mission to find and protect a long-hidden otherworldly treasure: the Submarine Ganduberunda. Deep beneath the unfathomable depths of the Indian Ocean, this enigmatic submarine safeguards the secrets of UFOs and the Moonstone, a stone brought to Earth. This submarine, powered by Uranium energy, has remained submerged and disconnected from the world to ensure the safety of its classified research. Simultaneously, the Jugari tribe, guardians of the deep and known as the Water People, observe the emergence of unknown forces on the surface, torn between preserving their hidden sanctuary and intervening in surface dwellers' affairs. Meanwhile, EC George, the ISRO scientist, deciphers hidden messages within ancient myths and modern technology, aided by the Ramsetu stone, in a race against time to unlock the Moonstone's secrets. Deep within the Earth, EC George sends a cryptic message to the military headquarters, urgently requesting help to repair the broken submarine's machinery. Agastya, the Indian agent, joined by the Japanese scientist Koushitaki, races against time to save and protect the extraordinary powers from the conspiracies of other Chinese and American agents, all while possessing an artifact with the potential to reshape the destiny of the world

Suspense, humor, and romance abound in this 1868 mystery, in which a gem stolen from a Hindu shrine resurfaces in an English country home — with a trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail.

The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjón's specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sjón's most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a young man on the fringes of a society that is itself at the fringes of the world--at what seems like history's most tumultuous, perhaps ultimate moment. Máni Steinn is queer in a society in which the idea of homosexuality is beyond the furthest extreme. His city, Reykjavik in 1918, is homogeneous and isolated and seems entirely defenseless against the Spanish flu, which has already torn through Europe, Asia, and North America and is now lapping up on Iceland's shores. And if the flu doesn't do it, there's always the threat that war will spread all the way north. And yet the outside world has also brought Icelanders cinema! And there's nothing like a dark, silent room with a film from Europe flickering on the screen to help you escape from the overwhelming threats--and adventures--of the night, to transport you, to make you feel like everything is going to be all right. For Máni Steinn, the question is whether, at Reykjavik's darkest hour, he should retreat all the way into this imaginary world, or if he should engage with the society that has so soundly rejected him.

"First published as Dilah and the moonstone by People's Literature Publishing House in 2014."--Title page verso.

"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel’s household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels," The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear. Sandra Kemp’s introduction examines The Moonstone as a work of Victorian sensation fiction and an early example of the detective genre, and discusses the technique of multiple narrators, the role of opium, and Collins’s sources and autobiographical references.