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A thrilling new adventure in the bestselling Alice in Deadland
series. It has now been close to two years since Alice followed a
bunny eared Biter down a hole, triggering off events that changed
her life and that of everyone in the Deadland. The Central
Committee has been overthrown in Shanghai and the people of the
Mainland freed from its tyranny. Red Guards no longer threaten
Alice and the people of Wonderland and humans and Biters are
beginning to learn to live with each other. There is renewed hope
that we can indeed recreate our world as it was before The Rising
destroyed it more than fifteen years ago. That short-lived sense of
security is shattered when Shanghai is obliterated in a savage and
sudden attack. When that same new danger threatens Wonderland,
Alice must embark on a perilous journey to hunt down this threat.
This adventure takes her deep into the Homeland, a desolate land
where her parents once came from; a land now torn apart by Zeus
mercenaries, bandits and wild Biters; a once mighty and prosperous
nation known as the United States of America.
A new thriller from the author of the Amazon.com bestselling Alice
in Deadland trilogy. When there were still people around to talk
to, I would introduce myself as a drinker with a writing problem.
It sounded witty at the time, and certainly got a smile once in a
while from the ladies. None of that matters now. There are no
people left to read my books, and nobody left to listen to my
attempts at wit. Now it's just me, sitting in my house on the hill,
watching the undead rampage through what we humans once called our
world. I sometimes wonder why I still live when those much younger,
stronger, smarter and fitter than me perished. Maybe it's just dumb
luck. But maybe I am being left alive for a purpose. Nobody may
have cared much for my novel, but maybe this is what I was meant to
write. Maybe this is what I was meant to be. The chronicler of the
undead. This is my story.
First published in paperback as 'Herogiri' by Random House India,
2010. What happens when fate chooses an ordinary man for an
extraordinary mission? Arnab Bannerjee has little excitement in his
life other than tracking down missing books as the Assistant
Librarian in a small college in Delhi. All that changes one day
when he is beaten and left for dead after a robbery. Arnab awakens
to discover that he has developed fantastic superhuman powers and
he tries to master his new-found powers and to use them for good.
As a hooded superhero he takes to the streets on a one-man crusade
against injustice. However he soon realizes that in a society where
the only power that matters comes from having money or the right
connections, one man, even a superhero, can make little difference.
When he embarks on a final, desperate mission, he realizes that to
succeed, he has to become a part of the very system he loathes by
tapping into a motley set of allies such as the Minister who wants
to use his powers to rig elections, the corrupt policeman who shot
Arnab for exposing him and the corporate tycoon who wants to sign
him up as a brand ambassador At one level, Heroes R Us seeks to
entertain with a delightfully contemporary take on the superhero
genre, and at another level it asks the provocative question of
whether in the dark and corrupt times we live in, there is any
place left for heroes. Slumdog Millionaire meets Spiderman in this
exciting novel that will entertain and make you think at the same
time.
Alice in Deadland was released in November 2011 and quickly became
an Amazon.com bestseller, selling more than 50,000 copies in its
first three months. It was followed by its sequel, 'Through The
Looking Glass' and 'Off With Their Heads', the prequel to Alice in
Deadland. Now, get all three of the first novels in the Alice in
Deadland Trilogy in one single omnibus edition and immerse yourself
in this bestselling adventure. Civilization as we know it ended
more than fifteen years ago, leaving as it's legacy barren
wastelands called the Deadland and a new terror for the humans who
survived- hordes of undead Biters. Fifteen year-old Alice has spent
her entire life in the Deadland, her education consisting of how
best to use guns and knives in the ongoing war for survival against
the Biters. One day, Alice spots a Biter disappearing into a hole
in the ground and follows it, in search of fabled underground Biter
bases. What Alice discovers there propels her into an action-packed
adventure that changes her life and that of all humans in the
Deadland forever. An adventure where she learns the terrible
conspiracy behind the ruin of humanity, the truth behind the origin
of the Biters, and the prophecy the mysterious Biter Queen believes
Alice is destined to fulfill. A prophecy based on the charred
remains of the last book in the Deadland- a book called Alice in
Wonderland.
What is the similarity between selling a brand and standing out for
promotion? Can the principles of B2B marketing really give marriage
a happily ever after? Is using celebrities to sell shampoo the same
thing as getting references for your resume? How can lessons from
the branding of Starbucks and McDonald's change your life? This is
not the sort of marketing you learn in business schools, but more a
science which influences human perception and through it,
behaviour. From the days of Adam, this is that power we all
understand intuitively and use every day. From losing weight to
implementing better work-life balance to how we incentivize conduct
in our friends and colleagues -- there are lessons and insights in
the book that you'll find yourself relating to and applying in how
you lead your life. Combining the business and branding experience
of a CEO, with the storytelling ability of a novelist, Mainak
Dhar's Brand Shastra will stimulate, inspire and entertain.
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