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    Fink!: The Mafia's Nightmare
    Fink!: The Mafia's Nightmare
    Fink!: The Mafia's Nightmare
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    Fink!: The Mafia's Nightmare

    By Thejendra Sreenivas

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    There is nothing worse than a brutal crime that remains unsolved for years. What can be more painful for the victims and their loved ones than to see the perpetrators still roaming free from the tentacles of justice? But not anymore. There is someone in town now who can give solace to such victims. A new headache has now entered the underworld and that’s not the police.

    Meet a mysterious private investigator with the strange powers to solve cases that have stumped the police for decades. A man who can handle baffling criminal cases when even the world’s greatest detectives fail to make any progress. A faceless stool pigeon who is sending shivers down the spine of the Mafia and the underworld by mysteriously unraveling all their darkest secrets. A chap every police chief would love to have on his team. Who is he? What is his secret? How does he do it? Why is he doing it? Who are his sources?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThejendra Sreenivas
    Release dateDec 2, 2019
    ISBN9780463877494
    Fink!: The Mafia's Nightmare
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    Thejendra Sreenivas

    Thejendra Sreenivas is a Technology manager with nearly 28+ years of experience in the IT industry handling a variety of technical roles & projects. He is also an Author and Life Skills coach. He offers personalized coaching in Self-Publishing, Financial Literacy, IT Asset Management, and various Self-Improvement concepts. He has also written 20+ mild & wild books on a number of subjects. His inspiration for writing unique books comes from Toni Morrison who said, “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”Please visit his web cave - www.thejendra.com for details of his books, articles and coaching information.

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      Fink! - Thejendra Sreenivas

      Acknowledgments

      My first thanks go to Toni Morrison, a famous American author, and recipient of countless awards including the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, who first planted the incredible seeds of writing a book in my head. Even though I have never met her it was her amazing quote, "If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it," that inspired and motivated me to write articles and books nearly two decades ago.

      My second thanks go to my family members, friends, neighbors, and relatives for helping me accomplish this literary feat by completely forgetting or ignoring me on countless weekends while I was pounding on my keyboard with wild ideas setting my head on fire.

      My third thanks go to the various bits and pieces of enlightenment gained from dealing with countless people over the years, opening all the mental taps, personal and witnessed experiences, pleasant and nasty encounters, rational and irrational thoughts in solitude, wake-up calls, famous quotes, and most importantly those bizarre ideas being mysteriously pumped into my brain by a naughty higher power. So, a lot of earthly and cosmic folks have directly or indirectly contributed to the flow of thoughts presented in this and all my other books.

      Thejendra Sreenivas

      Book Publishing Coach

      www.thejendra.com

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      About the Author

      Good day. My name is Thejendra Sreenivas. I was a Technology Manager in the IT industry for nearly 30 years. Before entering the IT industry, I was also an electronics lecturer for a short duration.

      I have written and self-published 35+ books on various subjects. All my books are available in both Paperback and eBook on all major book retailers. I am also the Editor and Publisher of a font-optimized digital magazine called Self Improvement International which contains articles on personal development, workplace issues, humor, writing, and publishing.

      I am now a Book Publishing Coach and offer services like Assisted Self-Publishing, Manuscript Formatting, Facebook Ads, Ghostwriting, One Page Websites, Article Writing, and Podcast Creation. In addition, I also offer Personal Development Coaching.

      Please visit my web cave - www.thejendra.com or www.author-world.com for details of my books, magazine, and coaching information.

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      Review Request

      Thank you for buying and reading my book! If you enjoyed this book or found it useful, I would be very grateful if you would post a short review online and also share it with your friends, coworkers, relatives, and your social media platforms.

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      Preface

      There is nothing worse than a brutal crime that remains unsolved for years. What can be more painful for the victims and their loved ones than to see the perpetrators still roaming free from the tentacles of justice? But not anymore. There is someone in town now who can give solace to such victims. A new headache has now entered the underworld and that’s not the police.

      Meet a mysterious private investigator with the strange powers to solve cases that have stumped the police for decades. A man who can handle baffling criminal cases when even the world’s greatest detectives fail to make any progress. A faceless stool pigeon who is sending shivers down the spine of the Mafia and the underworld by mysteriously unraveling all their darkest secrets. A chap every police chief would love to have on his team. Who is he? What is his secret? How does he do it? Why is he doing it? Who are his sources?

      The Pin Prick

      Life had been magical for many months. As a freelancer, my purse was brimming with cash earned by interviewing famous people and pitching their stories to hungry magazines and newspapers. I used to think those flamboyant gurus were so right when they said freelance reporting is an excellent opportunity for raking in money by the shovel, retaining my freedom of expression, choosing my editors, charging by the hour, choosing what to write, when, why, or how, etc. Believing this was possible for every freelancer, I would often say quitting my steady job and jumping to freelancing was the best thing I have ever done. I was flying high.

      Then, I crash-landed. The problem is when people are too happy even the gods are jealous. Freelancing, I realized, is like riding a mud horse and you will never know when it crumbles. It’s a constant battle to get new ideas, good interviews, and juicy assignments that pay enough to keep the month-end sharks and leeches away. Now it had been nearly five months since any new assignment that paid a living wage landed on my table. All my hopeful calls to top politicians, celebrities, policemen, etc., for a juicy interview, turned out to be a dud. My bank balance was going down and my anxiety was going up. Even the tough ones can get panicky if they don’t get any assignments for several months, and my situation was similar now. I now realized that abruptly quitting my steady job at the news magazine and diving into freelancing was a dumb decision, but going back now was difficult. I desperately wished that something pleasant, like a bag of cash, would drop by fast before my purse became empty. To add to my woes, it had been raining continuously for three damn days, and I was a prisoner in my cramped room unable to go out fishing for a good story. I now feared for my free-falling freelance career.

      Once that invisible pest, fear, climbs on your shoulder, it is almost impossible to shake off. That’s when I suddenly remembered a quote from someone who said, You have nothing to fear, but fear itself. Now, what does this rubbish sentence mean and how do you use this advice in real life? Just by remembering this sentence can one boldly face a bloodthirsty vampire tapping on my shoulder on a dark lonely road? Or can I convince someone afraid of his own shadow to take a stroll in an eerie graveyard in the middle of a rainy night? The problem with our world today is it is full of armchair warriors doling out great advice and then hiding behind the scenes. Maybe, this is why my dad used to say - All jobs are easy for someone who doesn’t have to do it himself. My dad was the best cop in town with a truckload of wisdom. Even though I wanted to become a cop like him, my mom was against that idea. She dreaded the thought of me getting killed like my dad by some street thug who was never caught. Wonder where my dad’s soul is now? Did he get reborn, or go to heaven, or did he meet all our dead relatives? Is it ever possible to find out such things? Anyway, lazy rainy days like these are always good to let the mind wander.

      Now I wasn’t being paid to sit and dream aimlessly. I needed some good story fast, anything that would interest my editor to loosen his purse strings. Suddenly, my laptop speaker chirped on the arrival of some new email. I instinctively looked at the screen and found an email with only a subject line stating – I am coming to meet you. Curious to know who, I opened the mail and was surprised to find there was no sender address, which was strange but not improbable in today’s technical wizardry. Thinking it was spam, I pressed the delete key, and within a few seconds, another identical mail popped on my screen. Irritated, I selected the mail and clicked on spam, but my junk filter angrily retorted that it can’t add blank senders to its list. So, I deleted the mail again hoping it would stop. Within a few minutes, my private unlisted phone rang and to my surprise the number on the screen was blank. Before I could say hello, the caller, without introducing himself asked in a soft raspy voice, Why did you delete my email?

      Which email and when did you send it? I shot back.

      Just now. I sent you two emails, and you deleted both of them without replying.

      Who is this?

      An interesting person. I will come and meet you shortly.

      Why should I meet you?

      Because I saw you get an earful of nasty pleasantries from your editor for not submitting anything interesting for many months.

      Saw me? How? There was no one else in the room other than me and my editor. Did he tell you?

      No, he didn’t tell me, but I was in that room enjoying your hysterical theatrics. I thought you were going to have a heart attack. So, when shall we meet?

      Thinking he was some crackpot I said, Sorry, I don’t think we can meet. Besides, I don’t know who you are, and I am also busy today.

      No, you aren’t busy. Don’t lie to me.

      Well, how do you know I am not busy?

      I know many things.

      Now listen, pal. I don’t have time for pranks. Tell me who you are or I will disconnect the call.

      Well, I was an ordinary sailor long ago.

      Ordinary sailor? Now, why would any reporter be interested in you?

      I can tell you my bedtime stories so that you can stop begging others for their stories.

      "Bedtime stories? Hmm, that doesn’t sound interesting. Maybe, you should search for some children's book author and not a

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