The Bankster by Ravi Subramanian is a story about bank fraud, people mysteriously dying and somebody piecing together the puzzle, connecting the dots and unveiling the big picture. The Bankster took me by surprise. Given my despicable knowledge and attitude towards banks and its inner machinations, the book threaded me along gently and carefully like a surgeon pulling along a newborn by umbilical cord. So, the story starts off with the brief thing about blood diamonds before quickly jumping into the office politics and double crossing of Greater Boston something Bank. It is nicknamed as a more easy to remember GB2. The story progresses with a galloping pace like gossip spreading through unofficial communication channels. And you are soon beginning to develop the feeling that something is not being done right. In the meantime, you are also told this story of a boy who finds his father wrongly arrested for suspected ivory smuggling. And this father, Krishna Menon, is later engag...