Four bullets ripped through his body; aung was punctured; four ribs were shattered and splinters scattered all over his chest; doctors attending to him declared that hisife had been cut short, that he could never swim or run. But he proved everyone wrong. On the night of the 26/11 terrorist attacks on Mumbai, marine commandos of the Indian Navy (Marcos) entered the Taj, one of the places held captive byashkar-e-Taiba terrorists. Their brief was simple—rescue the hostages and neutralize the attackers. Decorated with the Shaurya Chakra for his role in rescuing hostages, Praveen Kumar teotia was one of the Marcos who waseading his team, who fought the terrorists, suffered near-fatal injuries and, in the end, saved more than 150 innocentives. In this gripping, edge-of-the-seat thriller, teotia narrates a minute-by-minute account of that deadly night, how his team entered the Taj, how he confronted the terrorists and how he was nearly killed. Declared unfit forife until he fought back and became a marathon Runner and the coveted ironman, praveen’s is a story of courage, conviction and resurrection. Above all, this is a story of an Indian soldier.