Review by Alan Padilla -- Border Post 99 by Kedar Patankar
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Review by Alan Padilla -- Border Post 99 by Kedar Patankar
[Following is a volunteer review of "Border Post 99" by Kedar Patankar.]
4 out of 4 stars
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Two soldiers from two neighboring countries in conflict with each other divided by one border. Kedar Patankar tells the story of two soldiers, one from India and the other from Pakistan, ordered to patrol a vague border line that separates both of their countries which are in political conflict with each other. As these two soldiers eventually spot each other, both soldier's survival instinct kick in and this makes them battle with the difficult decision of whether they should kill the other before they get killed first.
Author Kedar Patankar takes the reader on a nonstop action packed, nerve wrecking journey full of suspense with his book, Border Post 99: No Man's Land. What is amazing about Patankar's book is that it not only falls in the historical fiction genre, but it is also a thriller intended to keep the readers on the edge of their seat as they wonder if one soldier will eventually kill the other or not.
Kedar's engaging writing style makes the reader seem as if he or she is in the Indian-Pakistan border witnessing as the encounters between both soldiers turn hostile, "The enemy's eyes were fixed on Sharma. His rifle was aimed directly at him...Neither moved an eyelid." Kedar also does a great job of describing the landscape in the border region such as the "pointy, rugged and at least a hundred feet tall forest canopy."
In between all of the action packed drama that develops between both soldiers as they fight for survival, Patankar delivers a sharp plot twist that will make the readers heart sink even more and gasp with disbelief. Although it is almost unbelievable that Patankar can add even more suspense and drama to his book, he masterfully manages to do it and is deserving of high recognition for his creativity while at the same time touching a serious topic which is the political friction between India and Pakistan.
Border Post 99: No Man's Land will leave the reader with a valuable message at the end. It not only seeks to show the friction between two countries and its people through historical fiction, but seeks to find a moral, human and historical solution. Kedar's book is a fascinating literary work of art that provides a glimpse of historical understanding of the political friction between India and Pakistan to those who were unaware of it and leaves the reader with a sense of hope which the reader can adopt and relate to many other political conflicts in other regions going on today. I rate this book a 4 out of 4 stars and would highly recommended to everyone interested in historical fiction.
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4 out of 4 stars
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Two soldiers from two neighboring countries in conflict with each other divided by one border. Kedar Patankar tells the story of two soldiers, one from India and the other from Pakistan, ordered to patrol a vague border line that separates both of their countries which are in political conflict with each other. As these two soldiers eventually spot each other, both soldier's survival instinct kick in and this makes them battle with the difficult decision of whether they should kill the other before they get killed first.
Author Kedar Patankar takes the reader on a nonstop action packed, nerve wrecking journey full of suspense with his book, Border Post 99: No Man's Land. What is amazing about Patankar's book is that it not only falls in the historical fiction genre, but it is also a thriller intended to keep the readers on the edge of their seat as they wonder if one soldier will eventually kill the other or not.
Kedar's engaging writing style makes the reader seem as if he or she is in the Indian-Pakistan border witnessing as the encounters between both soldiers turn hostile, "The enemy's eyes were fixed on Sharma. His rifle was aimed directly at him...Neither moved an eyelid." Kedar also does a great job of describing the landscape in the border region such as the "pointy, rugged and at least a hundred feet tall forest canopy."
In between all of the action packed drama that develops between both soldiers as they fight for survival, Patankar delivers a sharp plot twist that will make the readers heart sink even more and gasp with disbelief. Although it is almost unbelievable that Patankar can add even more suspense and drama to his book, he masterfully manages to do it and is deserving of high recognition for his creativity while at the same time touching a serious topic which is the political friction between India and Pakistan.
Border Post 99: No Man's Land will leave the reader with a valuable message at the end. It not only seeks to show the friction between two countries and its people through historical fiction, but seeks to find a moral, human and historical solution. Kedar's book is a fascinating literary work of art that provides a glimpse of historical understanding of the political friction between India and Pakistan to those who were unaware of it and leaves the reader with a sense of hope which the reader can adopt and relate to many other political conflicts in other regions going on today. I rate this book a 4 out of 4 stars and would highly recommended to everyone interested in historical fiction.
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