Concealed Existence

Book excerpt: The grumpy Dr. Srinivasan has summoned a team of six specialists to a research facility in Ross Island, India. Once there, they find themselves face-to-face with a man tied up in a room for interrogation purposes. His name is Om Shahtri, and he possesses a powerful secretone that could change the beliefs of the past and present and the course of the future forever. As events unfold, Om is compelled to recite the unbelievable story of his life and his survival for the past 431,000 years. He claims he has been present in all the Yugas and the Hindi epochs, thereby questioning the very existence of mortality. The specialists are shocked, especially when they learn the secret that Oms immortality lies in a mysterious book. They are not the only ones in search of this priceless secret. Heinous murders occur as the wicked wish of an old man gets close to being fulfilled. The book says death is not inevitable, but how? Furthermore, upon discovery, Oms book should be kept in the right handsbut when the ownership of an object could mean world domination, are any human hands safe?