The King’s Gambit: Chapter 3 (The Prostitute)

aicha 12; http://www.alghuraircentre.com/

Al Ghurair?? taht c/wouldnt have been the result of endless research too.

Rafique#10

``So, does it go to Riyadh, or not?``

No,it doesn`t and neither does Air Newzealand.

Regards.

Vereesh 9; ``Qantas at Jeddah``....Riyadh, not Jeddah.

I am very impressed. This is a very good catch. I thought everybody would miss it. It was a late, after midnight. I was tired of searching on the Internet making sure the technical details were correct. The first airline that came to mind was Air New Zeleand, for some reason. I assumed they probably didn`t go to Riyadh. So I went with Qantas, but was too tired to check Qantas schedules. So, does it go to Riyadh, or not?

The first email I received from Chowk informed me that I owned the copyrights. So please feel free to hand out hard copies, as long as you are not charging more than 1 Ruppee for it ;-) It has always been my dream to one day see a a dozen pakoras or jaleebis wrapped in a worn out page of my work.

Ah-ha . . . Qantas at Jeddah? Hmm . . . which year did you say?

Eminent, sirji, eminent. I got a hardcopy version being photocopied and doing the rounds, I hope you don`t mind, and let me assure you, it is reaching very interesting places too . . .

Something about how much better it would have been if we could have been adversaries without being enemies . . .

soundmiester 3; Fredrick Forsyth is one of my favorite authors. Dogs of War, Devil`s alternative, Day of the Jackal, Fourth Protocol are classics. Somewhere in between, he wrote the Shepherd, which for some reason was very ordinary. The last one of his I read was the Negotiator.

rozaiba 5/soundmiester; All the characters will converge. Hopefully quite nicely. It is going to take some time before they converge.

``$10,000/night``...... as they say, you get what you pay for. And don`t knock it till you have tried it :-) If you do some research on the internet, you maybe surprised to find the going rates for some of the upper-upper-class escorts. I certainly was surprised.

semipreciousme 6; The scenarios will start tying together slowly after chapter 5, or so. The first few chapters are introductions to characters. The story is moving through the characters slowly. The later chapters will concentrate more on the story than the characters.

Layman 7; I realize the time intervals between each chapter lead to a loss of interest. But there isn`t much I can do about the speed with which the chapters are printed. I do it in my free time, and I don`t want to make them too long. If they are too long, people will just skip over them. You can re-read the other chapters on the links, before you read the new ones.

There will be quite a few more characters that will be introduced. So it may get really confusing from that point onwards. The number of characters in a normal thriller is usually larger than what I have here.

Things will move along slowly. Not as slow as normal thrillers, which are usually between 250-1000 pages. but maybe a bit slow for most people`s interests. Patience!!! and everything will fall into place nicely....

Sorry authors, I liked your first two chapters, but now I have forgotten all about them. I`m sure by the time your next chapter gets out, I would have forgotten the current one too (which has too many characters, by the way).

...umair and omer...this is getting interesting...when are you going to start tying together all the various scenarios?....(btw, $10,000/night?!?)....

you guys are holding it well together with so many plots and scenes- can`t wait till they all converge.

Once again, my thanks to the Chowk staff for publishing chapter 3. I hope you guys (and ladies) aren`t regretting it ;-) I am slowly attempting to make the chapters longer and longer, so the story doesn`t go into too many chapters. But there are still quite a few to go. So let`s hope your staff is in it for the long run.

Usrtruly 1; I am assuming Chowk gets quite a few articles from all over the world. On the whole, they have published my chapters immediately after I have submitted them. So I cannot complain. I write the chapters whenever I have some free time, which leads to inconsistent submittals from my side. If Chowk wants me to send them in after certain time intervals, I can attempt to do so.

Subroto 2; You will have to talk to Vereesh. He has already asked for the movie rights to an Indian version ;-) He beat you by one chapter. Maybe a combined Bombay-Hollywood production.

Reply Urstruly#1:

When reading the article look to the right, there are links to the ``Other articles`` by the same author. that gives you one-window view.

To the author: Racy reading, very Frederick Forsyth-like :) But is there any connection between all three scenarios yo mentioned?

Umair, Omer,

Let us know when Hollywood gets the movie rights. Waiting for chapter 4.

Subroto

Chowk Staff & Writers.

This is an interesting novel. I have a couple of suggestions to make.

Please pace yourself so that you post the new episode while the older one is still on the front page. If that is not possible, create a separate link like ``India Unvarnished`` where one can get to all published episodes by clicking only once.

Thank you