\”Boforsgate: A Journalist’s Pursuit of Truth\” (Juggernaut, 328 pp, Rs 899), offers a detailed account of the episode which brought down the Rajiv Gandhi government in ignominy. The scandal tarnished the image of two popular Prime Ministers (one posthumously) and forced banking haven Switzerland to change its impenetrable laws to help foreign governments unearth cases of large-scale corruption. Chitra Subramaniam spent hours at government offices in Geneva pouring through massive registers to identify the firms whose names came up in the money trail. She went on to carefully construct a network of informants spanning Switzerland to Sweden, obtained classified documents, and in an advanced state of pregnancy, spend hours at the UN Library trying to find out what a Bofors howitzer was. She faced intimidation – threats of harming her son, vandalism and attempted sabotage – as well as threats of her character assassination. Like the last one, there were benefactors, with \”Snowdrop\” labelled as the most vicious of the vicious.