After its publication, Businessworld magazine said Khan might have started a genre that will lead many youngsters to learn the English language the way an earlier generation learnt it through Robert Ludlums and Fredrick Forsyths.

Yasser Basheer, a Pakistani Jihadist leader, travels to the Red Corridor and teams up with Agyaat, an Indian Naxalite commander.

They plot to unleash India's experimental missile, Pralay, to attack Pakistan, leading to war between the two nations with other countries threatening to join the conflict.

[4] Red Jihad: Battle for South Asia garnered generally positive reception and the novel went into a reprint within months of its release.

Khan is now working on his second book, a science-fiction sequel to Red Jihad, that is themed around time-travel and alternate history.