The Hawala Agent

De: Smarak Swain

Narrado por: Kiran Kumar

Digyen Burmah is a forensic auditor and corporate spy. An old friend needs his help in finding his wife and coworker, who mysteriously vanished during an official tour. Apparently, the company is also frantically trying to find his elusive wife.

Burmah investigates the company and unearths shady deals in tax havens, transactions with hawala agents, cash payments to influence Indian elections and many more shocking details.

Did his friend’s wife know too much? Or was she a conduit in the hawala channel used to transport money across borders? Whose money is it? What agenda is the company pursuing in the garb of developing software?

Based on true stories from income tax raids, The Hawala Agent brings to fore how hawala is used to launder money and finance extremism.

©2022 Smarak Swain (P)2022 Audible, Inc.

omg the narrator

the narrator doesn't change his tone AT ALL for any of the characters, making conversations difficult to follow

Loved the story, not the narrator

The story was good and interesting but the narrator was awful. His tone did not change for the different characters speaking, so it was hard to follow conversations. And he was very flat so even when something was emotional or charged it felt forced. Too bad, this could have been very engaging, as it was, it was a slog to the end.

India storyline nails modern morality with sly wit and razor sharp writing.

Narrator with native accent perfectly captures sly wit and razor sharp writing style. A modern India slant on noir sleuthing. Protagonist certified in fraud assessment must negotiate personal morality in the midst of corporate corruption, extremist financial scheming and the sorrow of human trafficking.

Entertaining

Really enjoyed the narrator. A different flavor detective story. The way everyone interacted was interesting.

Loved insight into Indian drama

Very good story as read by an Indian gave it an air of authenticity for me which I enjoyed.