Global Pursuit

Vikram Sharma

Charismatic tech mogul whose digital-banking empire is under Black Lotus attack, recruited by India's NCSA

Vikram built a digital-banking empire that crushed rivals on its way up—one of them his own sister, Priya. When Black Lotus torches his networks, NCSA recruits him to hunt the syndicate from Dubai to London. Charismatic and image-conscious, he leads from the front, ego over humility, chasing a redemption his old ruthlessness never let him imagine.

Priya Sharma

Fierce coder rebuilding her startup after Vikram's empire crushed it, hired by NCSA to stop Black Lotus

Priya is the coder whose startup died in her brother Vikram's shadow. NCSA hired her to stop Black Lotus—a chance to outshine the man who ruined her and fight for the small players for once. Sharp, principled, and carrying a grudge, she chases leads across continents, torn between old family wounds and a growing certainty that Arjun is exactly the wrong kind of smooth.

Arjun Kapoor

Cunning Black Lotus leader posing as an NCSA ally while secretly orchestrating the global cybercrisis

Arjun is the mind behind Black Lotus, engineering a global cybercrisis to break a system he's decided deserves to burn. He walks beside Vikram and Priya wearing an NCSA ally's face, planting every lead and pulling every string. Charming and disillusioned, he hides the knife behind the smile—though their trust keeps tempting him toward a redemption he never planned for.