LIGHTNING ON THE SUN: A Novel

Authors: Bingham, Robert
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000
ISBN: 9781101971277, Related ISBNs: 0385488564, 0385488688, 1101971274, 9780385488563, 9780385488686
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: From the highly acclaimed author of Pure Slaughter Value comes this latter-day literary noir about an ex-pat in Cambodia eager to get home but taking all the wrong turns.

Asher went to Cambodia to get away from Julie, his Harvard grad ex-girlfriend currently tending bar in a topless joint in New York. But when his UNESCO work cleaning bat dung from Khmer statues is finished, and he decides on a dicey heroin scheme as his means to get home with plenty of money to spare, it?s Julie whose help he solicits. She agrees, but plans go dangerously awry frighteningly fast. A pulsating plot and precise literary prose make Lightning on the Sun a startlingly compelling and strangely poetic tale.
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