The Newsroom Mafia: A Grey Oak Westland Book
India’s first book on the unholy alliance between the fourth estate, the underworld and the government.
When supercop, Donald Fernandez declares an all-out war against the invincible Don, Narayan Swamy, he fights back with a formidable Mafia – a private army of armed thugs and a motley gang of corrupt police officers, backed by powerful politicians. What follows is a battle of raw power, sleaze, wits and dirty tactics by both the law breakers and the law enforcers blurring boundaries between good and evil. To save his skin, the Don fires his most lethal weapon, The Newsroom Mafia.
In this novel, veteran-journalist-turned-novelist, Oswald Pereira provides an insider’s view of the growing culture of planted news and reveals the fine line between fact and fiction in the newsroom. A racy and compelling crime thriller.
The Telegraph: The Newsroom Mafia may be made into a feature film
The Telegraph points to the possibility of The Newsroom Mafia being made into a feature film, as Oswald Pereira talks to the newspaper about his passion for writing in his childhood!
Click Here to Read Oswald Pereira’s Interview
Launch of The Newsroom Mafia at The Suryaa in New Delhi on March 21, 2012
Fact and Fiction in The Newsroom Mafia–it’s hard to tell
Oswald Pereira gets candid about corruption in the media in an interview in Helter Skelter with award-winning American novelist Ronald Malfi
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Launch of The Newsroom Mafia at Crossword Bookstore, Kemps Corner, Mumbai on December 8, 2011
Praise for The Newsroom Mafia
Blood in the Newsroom, an article in the Mid-Day-(Mumbai)
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DNA
This book is a film crying to be made. A racy read, it is also a roman à clef of sorts that lifts the lid on the murky goings-on in the world of newspapers, the police, the underworld and politics … a scathing indictment of corruption in newspaper … details the way articles are planned and stymied and even planted.
Times of India’s Westside Plus
A very good read: To use a journalists’ cliche, this book is a ‘scoop’; the ‘real’ deal about the unholy nexus between the underworld, the government and the Fourth Estate. A fast-paced, no- nonsense novel, it explains in surprising detail, the intertwined fellowship between the system and the ‘unsystematic’ underworld.
Deccan Herald
Through this work of fiction, journalist Oswald Pereira manages to bring out the bitter truth of what goes behind the news. The harsh truths tumbling out are severe indictments of a noble profession debauched by unscrupulous scribes. Pereira’s expose on the dirty deeds of some black sheep is a timely reminder when the Indian media scene is witnessing a churning process.
Times of India’s What’s Hot
A hard-hitting book, it scrapes the depths of the infamous media-government-underworld nexus. Although it’s fiction, many situations leave you guessing, wondering which reality the author is hinting at!