The year the first illegal Xanthe field test happened. A village in Nagaland was erased from every map. Zara was there. She saw what it did. She’s been having nightmares about the color of the blood—black, not red—for four years. Scene: Cold storage unit, 2:17 AM.
Xanthe isn't a powder or a liquid. It's a prion-like particle that lives in human blood. The only stable sample is inside a dying man: Rajan “Razor” Khanna , the arms dealer who brokered the original sale. He’s been shot, is bleeding out in a cold storage unit, and has exactly eighteen hours before his blood turns into a weapon that will kill everyone in a two-kilometer radius.
Mumbai. Three days before the monsoon.
At the helipad, sunrise bleeding orange over the Arabian Sea, Neha is alive—but the hard drive is a fake. The real Xanthe data is still in Razor’s dying blood. To destroy it permanently, they need to burn his body at over 3,000 degrees. That means blowing up the cold storage unit with him inside.
Zara aims The Divorce at his forehead. "Then give me the code." Girls.Guns.and.Blood.2019.480p.WEB-DL.HIN-ENG.x...
The file arrived on a cheap USB stick, wrapped in a bloodstained handkerchief. On it was a single line: "Girls. Guns. Blood. 2019. 480p." Not a movie. A manifest.
Zara has the detonator. Mira has the code to save Neha. Neha, through the tape, screams: "Didi, do it. Don't let them have it." The year the first illegal Xanthe field test happened
A disgraced female soldier, a runaway heiress, and a jaded arms dealer must trust no one—especially each other—as they hunt a missing hard drive containing the only copy of a blood-borne bioweapon code-named "Xanthe."