Life can be hard when you’re a dork. You’re not pretty or popular – just intelligent and very bored with the world around you. And then you discover that one of your friends, dorkier than you and thrice as socially inept, has a major secret. One she could kill for. Literally. Abhishikta is thrilled by the revelation that the nerdy Rikita is actually a lethal super-soldier – her geekiness belying the fact that she can kill everyone in a room, in any given situation, within five minutes, using a wooden table-leg. And Riki proceeds to induct Abhi into the Foundation, a secret organization that claims to exist only to serve human civilization. Not humanity; just civilization. Abhi takes to martial arts and guns with a bloodthirstiness previously unsuspected by anyone – even herself. What she doesn’t take to, however, is the fascist control exerted by the Foundation over its soldiers. She begins to ask questions … and things start getting really messy.
An action-packed story about an ordinary-girl turned- reluctant-assassin, The Girls Behind the Gunfire is a book you do not want to miss.