India, Jan. 17 -- When Amol Batty, a war reporter with a conscience, uncovers secrets that powerful governments would rather keep buried, he finds himself drawn into a web of deception that stretches from London to Beirut, Jerusalem and the Balkans. Torn between loyalty and integrity, Batty must decide whether to serve the story or to become a part of it. Inspired by award-winning foreign correspondent Shyam Bhatia's decades as The Observer's frontline reporter, The Quiet Correspondent explores the moral price of being present and bearing witness as history is made, and the personal cost of knowing too much.A taut, sharply written novel of conscience and intrigue, The Quiet Correspondent is as relevant today as when the first stories of disinformation and deep-state manipulation began to surface...