GUNS ON MY RED EARTH

‘I will not let you kill any more.’ Shanto’s voice was firm, confident—nolonger that of a timid fourteen-year-old boy.Shanto has managed the impossible. He has escaped from the heavilyfortified Lalgarh police station in the heart of Jangal mahal. Few outsidersdare enter these forests. It is a place where armed bands of men andwomen, Maoists, rule the roost. It is a place where even police contingentsdon’t travel after dark.Shanto is a child soldier, a hungry boy recruited into a bloodthirsty armyof rebels. But when he gets involved in an operation that leads to thegruesome killing of thirty-eight people, he decides to quit the rebels’cause. Now, both the police and his former comrades are hunting himdown. Will he emerge unscathed? Or will this be the final end of innocencefor him? A searing portrayal of a boy forced to confront a brutal reality,Guns on My Red Earth will mesmerize its readers.