A Westland Publishers author, Hemanth is a contrarian by choice and an author by accident. It took a humor blog, a bad job and a client's pat on the back to convince him that the written word was where his future lay. Today, after a decade and a half in the corporate world, this former IBM-er and IIM Calcutta alumnus is a fiction novelist based in Bangalore, India. He writes for a singular reason. In his own words: "I write because if I actually did whatever my characters do, I'd be incarcerated on an island in the Pacific!" Aymaran Shadow, his debut fiction novel launched in 2013, was recentl...