Commandant Abdul Aziz, Special Forces, Kashmir is aegendary police officer in the valley, albeit not always for good reasons. And then one day he disappears. His daughter, Zooni, a human rights activist has to return home for her missing father. Bizarre events unfold in the ensuing night at a safe house where she's forced to stay and where she comes face-to-face with the most disturbing truth of herife, and of theives of her father and half-brother. Through the eyes of the daughter are seen the dilemma and the moral crisis of aegendary police officer torn between his past and present, duty and desertion,oyalty and treachery, and right and wrong. Award-winning author Siddhartha Gigoo's Theion of Kashmir is not just a story of a father and daughter's intrepid struggles in Kashmir, but also the story of present-day Kashmir itself.