Jakarta Shadows

by Alan Brayne (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $9.02

  'I glanced at the heavy flesh slumped in the chair next to mine, too close for comfort. Something behind the eyes made my skin crawl.' Graham Young, disenchanted and rootless aid-worker, is seeking gin-fuelled oblivion in Jakarta's Hotel Platinum when a stranger intrudes into his comfortable ex-pat life. Jakarta is edgy after the fall of Soeharto, the country engulfed in religious strife and violence. And suddenly Graham's escape routes are cut off as he finds himself pursued by detectives investigating a rash of sex killings. Graham's attempts to sidestep sinister forces take him from glitzy malls buzzing with the would-be rich to the Moonbeam nightclub for games of pool with 'butterflies of the night'. But a thumbprint in blood, a student's unwelcome attentions and a malevolent interrogation ratchet up his paranoia. Terror follows him even to cloudless Bali. And around every corner lurk unease, corruption, dread. This stylish and gripping debut will appeal to readers of Alex Garland's The Tesseract and Timothy Mo's The Redundancy of Courage and Renegade.