A visa student. A forged ledger. A body buried in mango soil.

Arjun Ajith Nair arrived in Australia with a student visa, a duffel bag, and ₹18,000 in borrowed time. Three years later, he's on the run—trailing two dead men, one fake passport, and a trail of encrypted evidence from Broome to Beirut.

Brown Skin, White Lies is a razor-sharp migrant fugitive story, where every chapter is a survival file and every silence a calculated debt. From orchard exploitation in rural Australia to café anonymity in Bali, Arjun navigates a world of digital ghosts, courier grease, and moral ledgers no country wants to balance.

Told in lyrical fragments and field reports, this literary thriller explores what happens when systems fail, names change, and lies become the only form of currency left to belong.

For readers of Aravind Adiga, Behrouz Boochani, and Ocean Vuong.