Surender Mohan Pathak

Surender Mohan Pathak, born in Amritsar, Punjab, in 1940, is the leading author of Hindi-language crime fiction, with nearly 300 novels to his credit. His writing career began in the early 1960s with his brilliant Hindi translations of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, the works of James Hadley Chase, and Mario Puzo's The Godfather. His original novels have sold over 25 million copies in Hindi, making him one of India's all-time best-selling authors.