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Once your name enters the  network, it never really leaves.

A crime-and-conspiracy trilogy that traces a single inheritance from a Mumbai funeral to a shadow war fought across spreadsheets, scope sights, and silent payrolls.

The Web of Deceit trilogy by Mani Raman Subra — three book covers
02 · The Trilogy

Three books.
One unbroken thread.

Web of Deceit follows a single thread from one quiet New York banker landing in Mumbai for a funeral, to a multi-agency hunt across continents, drug pipelines, and political shadow. Each book is a complete thriller. Together they're a closed case file.

862 Total pages
+40 Years of experience
3 Countries · Mumbai · NYC · Pune
1 Reluctant executor
Web of Deceit Book 1 — Crime. Code. Conspiracy. by Mani Raman Subra
Financial Thriller Inheritance Mystery Mumbai 328 pages
Book 01 of 03 · Web of Deceit · Vol. I

Crime. Code.
Conspiracy.

A New York banker becomes the executor of a dead man's fortune — and the missing key to a crime network that will kill to stay invisible.

Vivek Vaidyanath lands in India expecting grief, paperwork, and a quick flight back to New York. Instead, he inherits a role he never auditioned for: Executor of Shashank Gupta's Will — and the reluctant gatekeeper to a fortune that smells… complicated.

Around him, an STF analytics unit is quietly mapping a drug network that shouldn't exist on paper. Banks are clean. Books balance. And yet bodies keep landing in the margins of someone else's spreadsheet.

"We're not chasing criminals anymore.
We're chasing patterns."
ISBN 978-93-63954-19-9
Pages 328
Pub. Date March 2026
Web of Deceit Book 2 — Traitors. Targets. Truths. by Mani Raman Subra
Espionage Insider Threat Data Analytics 266 pages
Book 02 of 03 · Web of Deceit · Vol. II

Traitors. Targets.
Truths.

In a war of secrets, the weakest link can bring down the strongest empire.

What began as financial anomalies and shadowy attacks now evolves into something far more dangerous. As Vivek is pulled deeper into the STF's covert operations, data stops being just data. It starts naming names.

Between Pune safehouses and Mumbai boardrooms, an informant is leaking outward and a target list is leaking inward. The team learns the hardest rule of intelligence work: the call is almost always coming from inside the building.

"Trust isn't a feeling here.
It's a pattern you audit."
ISBN 978-93-63950-05-4
Pages 266
Pub. Date March 2026
Web of Deceit Book 3 — Spiders. Snipers. Scandals. by Mani Raman Subra
Political Conspiracy National Security Honey Trap 268 pages
Book 03 of 03 · Web of Deceit · Vol. III

Spiders. Snipers.
Scandals.

A hidden conspiracy rises from the shadows, and the final battle begins.

Mumbai wakes to an ordinary morning, unaware that a silent, ruthless network is preparing to strike. Deep inside the STF's operations, a dangerous leak threatens to unravel years of covert work.

A senator's death. A sniper's lens. A web of filaments tightening across three cities. The hunters and the hunted finally meet — and the trilogy's last move belongs to whichever side learned to listen first.

"The web tightens.
The hunters and the hunted finally meet."
ISBN 978-93-63951-03-7
Pages 268
Pub. Date March 2026
Mani Raman Subra, author of the Web of Deceit trilogy
06 · About the Author

Mani Raman Subra

Author · Chartered Accountant · Professor of Practice, Delhi Technological University

Mani Raman Subra is a finance expert with over forty years in banking and financial services across Australia, New Zealand, the USA, South Africa, and India — a career that has put him in the rooms where the patterns in Web of Deceit begin.

A Chartered Accountant from New Zealand and an M.Com, PGDFT from India, he currently serves as a Professor of Practice at Delhi Technological University, mentoring young entrepreneurs and teaching Executive MBA students.

A certified Heartfulness trainer, he balances his analytical mind with meditation and storytelling — now braiding all three into a crime-thriller trilogy that reads like a forensic audit with a body count.

Chartered Accountant · NZ M.Com · PGDFT Professor of Practice, DTU 40+ Years in Finance Heartfulness Trainer
07 · Early Reviews

Read what the
first readers said.

Advance copies have been circulating with thriller reviewers, finance professionals, and crime-fiction book clubs since November 2025. A selection of the early reactions.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"Reads like a forensic audit with a body count. The first book where I actually understood why the money in the suitcase matters."

— A. IyerThe Mumbai Review · Crime Fiction Desk
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"Subra writes the financial world from inside the financial world. The procedural detail is what makes the violence land so hard."

— Dr. R. MenonProfessor, Indian School of Business
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"By the end of Book Two I'd forgotten this was fiction. By Book Three I was checking my own bank statements. Outstanding."

— S. KapoorGoodreads Top Reviewer
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"A propulsive, paranoid, deeply Indian thriller that earns every twist. The trilogy format is its secret weapon."

— J. D'SouzaCrime & Conspiracy Book Club
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"Vivek Vaidyanath is the executor we deserve — reluctant, exact, and slowly drowning in other people's lies."

— P. BoseStrand Books Newsletter
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"If you loved the cold patience of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, this trilogy is the modern Indian equivalent — and the spreadsheets are scarier than the snipers."

— N. AiyarPune Literary Society
08 · The Universe

Trace the
network.

Hover any node to reveal a fragment of the case file. Filter by book to watch the network expand across the trilogy — three cities, two task forces, one very tangled inheritance.

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