Crime writer Hussain Zaidi pays tribute to the men in uniform in his new novel “Eleventh Hour”.
The book is inspired by and derived from real-life events - a vast stash of RDX that has remained undiscovered since the Mumbai serial blasts of 1993 and the agencies totally clueless about it; the jailbreak in Bhopal of five men; the hijacking of an Indian ship and a commercial vessel by Somali pirates and Pakistan’s designs to spread terror in India.
“Since childhood, I was fascinated by men in uniform. At that time, I used to think that we could sleep peacefully because of all these heroes I would read about — men like Shahnawaz Ali Mirza and Vikrant Singh,” says Zaidi.