This book, HOPES SHATTERED, by Senior Journalist Latheef Farook, impartially documents in 495 pages the promises of the Maithripala Sirisena-Ranil Wickremesinghe Government, their failure to fulfil pledges and the country being taken for a ride besides causing political and economic instability. The failure to bring those accused of crime, corruption and the plundering of the nation’s wealth has led to disillusionment with the nation fast losing confidence in the government. As a result the Maithri- Ranil government has become an irrelevant liability.