Masud Rana is a fictional character created in 1966 by writer Qazi Anwar Hussain, who featured him in over 400 novels- Hussain created the adult spy-thriller series Masud Rana, at first modelled after James Bond, but expanded widely- So far 460 books have been published in this series which has gained a lot of popularity in Bangladesh- Written from the 1960s and continuing to present day, books are published almost every month by Sheba Prokashoni, one of the most popular publishing house of Bangladesh- Although Qazi Anwar Hussain started the series, it is an open secret that nowadays he doesn't write it any more- A group of ghostwriters are employed to produce all the new Masud Rana novels.
