Aaditya Ghosh is a former Special Forces soldier in the Indian Army.
He is not a spy and is not interested in being one. He is, as stated, a former soldier and would have loved to still be one but life's decisions had made that impossible. When we meet him, he is employed by a US company in India specializing in outsourcing services. His position there was as a senior manager and he is very grateful to have been given the job just a couple of years ago. He is also extremely bored with his 9-5 job. It might be less than exciting but it pays the bills and for that, Ghosh is grateful.
A bit of the back-history on Ghosh's previous life is told to us in a very unfriendly way by a talking head on a news program who recounts, "Major Aaditya Ghosh was a member of the crack paracommandos of the Indian Army, and together with many of his colleagues was under investigation for the deaths of several children in an unauthorized cross-border raid that the Pakistani authorities had complained to our government about. Some of his commanding officers resigned. He himself left the Army under intense scrutiny." What was not said by this man not so well briefed was that the 'children' were young men just barely still in their teens who had crossed into India to commit truly horrendous crimes and then fled back to Pakistan thinking themselves safe. They weren't innocent kids as the bleeding heart commentator described them and they definitely weren't safe like they had assumed. Unfortunately for Ghost, since the hunt and execution of these murderers were not officially sanctioned, Ghosh and his fellow soldiers were soon out of a job with little prospects.
Ghosh's adventures qualify for inclusion in this compendium because circumstances push him into situations where his instincts and his training make him unable to not get involved. That will result in this 6'2", fairly handsome man again going up against foreign terrorists - and even some domestic ones - and fighting for his life and those of his loved ones.
A terrific description of such a circumstance is shown in the opening lines of the first adventure: "You figure your movie date won't end well when the man in front of you gets shot."
Good Lines:
- Said by Ghosh about the Intelligence man recruiting him for a job, "I have learned not to trust any bureaucrat or spy. And, he ticks both boxes."