After being commissioned into the Indian Army, Abhay Sapru volunteered for the elite special Forces. For over a decade, he was sent into combat zones across the subcontinent. He is a certified combat diving instructor from the Naval Diving school, a qualified Paratrooper and has a green belt in Ka- rate and unarmed Combat.Abhay’s first novel on militant operations in Kashmir, ‘In the Valley of Shadows’, came out in 2011.