Category:
Adults,
Contemporary,
Historical FictionLanguage:
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Folklore Historical Treatise Political EspionageWritten by Kevin Missal
Read by Chandrahas Shetty
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
When ideas become weapons, who survives the lesson?
In the shadowed streets of Pataliputra, a city built on order begins to rot from within. Symbols drawn in funeral ash appear overnight. Bodies fall — not at random, but with purpose. Each death desecrates an ideal that once held the empire together.
At the centre stands Chanakya — architect of power, master of strategy, and the mind that shaped kings.
Opposing him is the one man who knows his philosophy too well: Mohandas, a former friend turned executioner of ideals, wielding logic sharper than steel and grief colder than poison.
As whispers name Chanakya the “king of corpses,” and a hidden war threatens to poison the city’s very lifeblood, mentor and student collide in a battle of minds — traps, riddles, and moral reckoning echoing through abandoned waterworks and burning memories.
Victory against foreign invaders brings no solace. Power fractures. Trust erodes. And the final question remains:
Can an empire be saved without sacrificing its soul?
A dark, philosophical epic of friendship, betrayal, and the cost of certainty — this is an audiobook where strategy bleeds, mercy is defiance, and peace demands courage greater than ruthlessness.