ZAPPED

• Book Title: Zapped

• ISBN: 9788184984033

• Edition: 1

• Publishing Year: July 2012

• Pages: 136

• Language: Translated from English to Marathi

• Category: Fiction

• Binding: Paperback

• Publisher: Mehta Publishing House

• Translators: Jayant Gune

Description:

• Setting: New York City, on a hot, humid July night during the 2003 blackout.

• Main Characters:

  • Regan and Jack Reilly, residents in Tribeca, struggling to renovate and expand their loft. Their quiet evening plans are disrupted.

  • Georgina Mathieson, an emotionally disturbed woman seeking revenge after a heartbreak, whose path intertwines with the Reillys'.

  • Lorraine Lily, a former actress, who learns her estranged husband has sold their loft to the Reillys, unaware of a hidden safe in the apartment.

• Plot:

  • While Jack goes to pick up food, Regan enters the apartment, unaware of a thief hiding in the closet, looking for a hidden safe.

  • The blackout strikes, setting off a chain of events. Jack, head of the NYC Major Case Squad, gets involved in a burglarized gallery.

  • Regan gets a call from her friend Kit, about Georgina going missing, and together, they search for her.

  • As the night unfolds, Lorraine returns to New York, desperately seeking the contents of the hidden safe, which she believes is key to her career.

  • The characters’ paths cross in precarious and often humorous ways, leading to an unforgettable, hot, dark summer night.