Lightning On The Sun by Robert Bingham
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, and with the aid of journalist Reese as an unwitting mule, Asher plans to move some weight to New York, where demand will happily exceed supply. His partner in crime is Julie, an ex-lover, still living in New York. But when Julie decides to improvise, Asher's carefully worked-out plans swiftly and dangerously unravel. Lightning on the Sun is a brilliant debut novel that combines the fast-paced suspense of a thriller with the moral resonance and exotic setting of one of Graham Greene's classic works.
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 * *
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 * *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841952529 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841952524 |
| Title | Lightning On The Sun |
| Author | Robert Bingham |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2002-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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