In this gripping account, former journalist Valmiki Faleiro covers a wide canvas in detail, including the entire story of Operation Vijay, the events that preceded it and those that followed.

VALMIKI FALEIRO, one of Goa's home-grown prolific writers, was a staff reporter with the West Coast Times. He also covered Goa for national publications like the Current Weekly, the Free Press Journal group of publications and the Indian Express. As a freelancer before that, he contributed articles and features to various journals, including the Navhind Times, Goa Today, Sun Weekly, Newstrek, Detective Digest, Mirror and Newsmag. Faleiro was among the dozen-odd Indians selected for the 'Workshop for Asian Writers' held in March 1977 at the India International Centre, New Delhi.

Faleiro was briefly (1985-87), the municipal president of Margao. On picking up the pen once again, after a gap of two decades, he wrote a couple of chapters for a book on Goa's print media (In Black and White: Insiders' Stories about the Press in Goa) and, for four years (2005-09), wrote a regular Sunday column, All 'n' Sundry, in a local daily newspaper. Patriotism in Action: Goans in India's Defence Services was his first book, followed by Soaring Spirit: 450 Years of Margao's Espí rito Santo Church 1565-2015.