Surender Mohan Pathak is considered the king of Hindi crime fiction, with nearly 300 novels to his credit. His writing career, along with his full-time job in Indian Telephone Industries of Delhi, began in the early 1960s with his Hindi translations of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. Sunil Series, Vimal Series and Jeet Series have won him millions of fans over the years. He has also written a number of novels in which the central characters do not reappear. These novels are called "Thrillers". Surender Mohan Pathak is also an ardent creator and collector of jokes. He also wrote his own James Bond series.