Overall, ULFA: The Mirage of Dawn is unputdownable and indispensable for anybody wishing to know about insurgency in India’s Northeast. At the same time, and despite the path-breaking research, the book suffers from several flaws. To begin with, there are editorial discrepancies which could induce the reader to think that the editing had been done in a hurried manner. While chief of staff Paresh Baruah has been referred to as Paresh similar to the style adopted with some other leaders of the outfit, he has also been mentioned as Baruah at a few places. Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, deputy chief of staff Raju Baruah or another functionary Munin Nabis, who established contact with Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), have been referred to with their surnames. At a few places, some silly errors have been spotted which could have been avoided.