The Mangrove Puppeteer

In the fictional coastal republic of Vanga, insurance investigator Kavi Anand is drawn into a labyrinth of deception after a tourist ferry disaster in the Sundara mangrove delta. What begins as a routine probe into suspicious deaths soon becomes a nightmare as Kavi survives a series of near-fatal accidents. Stripped of allies and cut off from reality, he discovers the mastermind is his own revered mentor—a fellow investigator who has been systematically dismantling his will, reducing him to a mere puppet. Set against a backdrop of environmental crime and corporate greed, the story explores how true psychological control lies in the annihilation of another person's independent will.