Hachette India launched Amrita Chowdhury's book 'BREACH- A Cyber Thriller'

Amrita shared her views on, whether the 21st century India understands the risk of internet. She also interacted with the audience by throwing light on some of the current affairs that engulf the country. The launch was followed by a book signing session.

In the book, weeks before pharma-giant Acel is ready to file a global patent application for cancer wonder-drug Colare, its offshore data centre in Mumbai is hacked. The charismatic, young leader of its Indian business, Dr Udai Vir Dhingra, finds himself being blamed for negligence and breach of security.

Battling market pressures, media scrutiny, livid American bosses and crumbling relationships, Vir must find the perpetrators, or see his career, and his life, spiral downwards. But the deeper he gets dragged into the shadowy world of masked online identities and muddied digital footprints, the more Vir discovers that nothing is easy or obvious, and everything has a price. The story is set across Mumbai, Washington and Guangzhou.

Amrita Verma Chowdhury is also the author of Faking It, an art crime thriller about fake modern and contemporary Indian art. She holds engineering degrees from IIT Kanpur and UC Berkeley, where she was a Jane Lewis Fellow, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon-Tepper Business School.