Dhongsho Pahar (Masud Rana-1)

Dhongsho Pahar is Masud Rana number 1, the very first book in Qazi Anwar Hussain’s spy thriller series, published in 1966. This is where it all began, the launch of what would become the longest running and most read action series in Bengali popular fiction.

Reading the first book today, you can feel both how much things have changed and how cleanly Qazi Anwar Hussain set up the formula that would carry the series for nearly six decades.