Bard of Blood (2019)

Mayank Tewari’s writing, shorn of diversions, could have done with some humour. The lack of lightness is, however, understandable given the dangerous cloak-and-daggers universe the series probes. Spying is serious business, not the least for a guilt-ridden operative who has gone off the radar to live down a fiasco that ended his career five years ago.