India, Oct. 17 -- I need you pay me $200,000 as retainer. Within four weeks, I give evidence who is behind this. As success fee, you must pay me $ 1 million." "How did you get these photos? Did you take them?" I ask. "You pay me and I get answers," he responds. "But you need know some things I do illegal in many places. So you cannot use what I give in court of law." "I can't be involved with anything illegal. Neither can my employer," I tell him."

Alok Sama lures you into The Money Trap with a scene straight out of a spy thriller. After that, of course, you cannot put the book down. The author benefited from a course he took in creative writing and this volume is replete with philosophical musings from Hindu scriptures, references to mu...