Johnny Gone Down by Karan Bajaj

Nikhil Arya has fallen. Once, he was an Ivy League scholar with a promising future at NASA; now, at forty, he is broke, homeless, and minutes away from blowing his brains out in a diabolical modern-day joust. It wasn't meant to be this way. An innocent vacation turned into an epic intercontinental journey that saw Nikhil become first a genocide survivor, then a Buddhist monk, a drug lord, a homeless accountant, a software mogul and a deadly game fighter. Now, twenty years later, Nikhil aka Johnny is tired of running. With the Colombian mafia on his trail and his abandoned wife and son ten thousand miles away, he prepares for his final act, aware that he will have lost even if he wins.

Karan Bajaj is the author of Keep
Off the Grass (2008) and The
Seeker (2015), all of which were #1
bestsellers in India. He was
recognized as India Today's Top 35
Under 35 Indians and shortlisted for
the Indiaplaza Golden Quill,
Crossword Book Pick, and
Teacher's Achievement Awards
(Literary) among other honours.