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Lightning on the Sun

Lightning on the Sun

by RobertBingham (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

Asher is in trouble. He's stuck out in Phnom Penh, the work has dried up and he's at the end of his spiritual and financial tether. But top-grade heroin is dirt-cheap in this lawless part of the world ...With funds borrowed from the loan-sharking, massage-parlour owner Mr Hawk he has carefully worked-out plans to move some weight to New York. Plans that begin - swiftly and dangerously - to unravel. Burning with the tension, moral resonance and exotic setting of a Graham Green classic, Lightning on the Sun is a staggeringly brilliant debut.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 06 Jun 2002
ISBN 10: 1841952524
ISBN 13: 9781841952529

Media Reviews
Lightning on the Sun is a nifty thriller with something to say about the secret symbiotic history of America and Cambodia. * * The Sunday Herald * *
It is blightingly entertaining. Entertaining partly because it has the swoop and speed of a thriller, blighting because it s subjects are harshly unmythical people who toss away lives: despots, in this case mostly Cambodian, and the staving masses scrambling on each other's backs to survive. * * The Observer * *
a dark, tight thriller that looks at the flaws and fallibility of human nature. It is a book about chaos and failure... This is a stunning legacy from a great lost voice. * * Dazed and Confused * *
Author Bio
Robert Bingham was the author of the highly praised short story collection Pure Slaughter Value. He held an M.F.A. from Columbia and was a founding editor of the literary magazine Open City. His fiction and non-fiction appeared in The New Yorker, and he worked for two years as a reporter for the Cambodia Daily. He died in 1999.