Welcome to the TRB Lounge. Today, we are featuring author A. B. Acharya for his latest release, Red Sky.
About The Author
A.B. Acharya
I am a neurologist and writer living in St. Louis, Missouri. I specialize in treating migraine headaches, a job that has taught me to listen carefully, notice patterns, and take people’s stories seriously. These skills prove just as useful on the page as in the clinic.
My parents are from Kolkata, India, and I am Bengali by heritage. I understand Bangla well, but my spoken version is atrocious, so I mostly stick to English.
My wife and I are both neurologists. I’m very lucky to be married to my best friend, who is also an excellent editor and proofreader. We have two adult daughters out in the world doing great things, along with two dogs, a rotating cast of fish, and a guinea pig who has outlasted expectations.
When I’m not working or writing, I like to run, play guitar, and read (but not at the same time). My literary preferences lie firmly in nineteenth-century Russian novels, with War and Peace at the top of the list.
My fiction explores ambition, power, and the unintended consequences of human ingenuity. If you’d like to learn more about why I wrote Red Sky, you can find essays and reflections on my Substack.
You can find author Acharya here:
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About the Book
He came to fix the world’s most dangerous drug. The drug had other plans.
Narin Roy is writing his confession in a police interrogation room, and the only thing keeping him calm is the drug that started it all.
Months earlier, he was a disgraced scientist with one shot left: a job at Harvester Pharmaceuticals, developing a therapeutic version of DMTA, the compound behind Red Sky, the street drug that can make you brilliant but occasionally turns you into a killer. Narin has a secret weapon: a formula on a flash drive that could crack the problem no one else has solved. All he has to do is survive Harvester long enough to use it.
But Harvester is not what it appears. Behind its gleaming façade, Narin finds himself caught between a charismatic lawyer whose charm conceals a ruthless agenda, an embittered scientist who built the company and may be destroying it, and a project so classified that its true purpose makes his blood run cold. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure haunts his dreams, a desert prince who trains him for a battle he doesn’t yet understand.
As the weeks pass, Narin can’t tell anymore where the science ends and his unraveling begins. The voices may be hallucinations. The visions may be warnings. And the confession he’s writing, the one that brought him to this cold interrogation room, may not end the way anyone expects.
Red Sky is a propulsive psychological thriller for readers who like their conspiracies dark, their narrators unreliable, and their endings earned.
You can find Red Sky here:
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