Half the Day is Night by Maureen F Mchugh
French-Vietnamese David Dai, veteran of an African war in which he served as a mercenary, has taken a new assignment as bodyguard in Caribe, an underwater nation in the Caribbean. A stranger in a strange land, he enters into a volatile relationship with his new employer Mayla Ling, banker and heiress to an old-money fortune. But, as Mayla negotiates the biggest deal of her life, she attracts the attentions of La Mano di Dios, a revolutionary terrorist group, and David finds himself plunged back into the nightmare of his own violent past...
A nearly perfect work WASHINGTON POST Maureen McHugh has lived up to the promise of CHINA MOUNTAIN ZHANGWhat emerges is a kind of Graham Greene tropical adventure, a suspensful narrative of First Worlders trapped in a hostile non-Anglo society. Snazzy yet subtle. ASIMOV'S HALF THE DAY IS NIGHT confirms McHugh's skill at immersing the reader (and her beleagured characters) in a future world so textured, multi-sensory, nuanced and flat-out convincing, both other novelistic places and real world travel seem meagre by comparison. LOCUS nifty prose, with a highly convincing density of detail... On the final page you may find yourself quite surprised to be able to breathe again. Another good writer to watch out for. SFX
With her first novel, CHINA MOUNTAIN ZHANG, Maureen McHugh established herself as a major writer of humanist SF, one of the most distinctive and talented to emerge this decade.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857238631 |
| ISBN 10 | 185723863X |
| Title | Half the Day is Night |
| Author | Maureen F Mchugh |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1999-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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