Rivers Of Code  (English, Hardcover, Diganta Datta)

Rivers of Code is a high-stakes cyber‑thriller set in an elite AI campus in Dehradun, where first‑year coder Dipankar and data‑obsessed Preeti turn a simple network assignment into a secret “early‑warning” project for digital attacks. When real campus logs begin echoing the eerie patterns from a historic school hack, their late‑night experiments on hostel balconies unravel a hidden campaign creeping from lab machines to admin servers and beyond, linking to ransomware assaults across India. As friendships deepen, rivalries flare and the line between ethical vigilance and illegal snooping blurs, the Chaos Coders must decide how far they’ll go, and what they’re willing to risk—when the only thing standing between a silent takeover and millions of lives being locked out of their own data is a handful of students who can read the fault lines in the wires.