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- A phone call in 1975 changes Moon Mathias's life forever, as a voice on the line tells him his dead brother's baby daughter--a child Moon never knew existed--is waiting for him in Southeast Asia.A task he believes beyond his meager talents is pulling Moon to Vietnam.
- Author(s): Tony Hillerman
- 416 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective
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An American undertakes a dangerous search in Asia for his Amerasian niece. When his brother is killed in a helicopter crash and the Vietnamese wife dies soon after, Mathias Moon, a Colorado newsman, flies to find the girl. In the course of the search, from the teeming streets of Manila to the jungles of Cambodia, Moon finds himself too.Book Synopsis
A phone call in 1975 changes Moon Mathias's life forever, as a voice on the line tells him his dead brother's baby daughter--a child Moon never knew existed--is waiting for him in Southeast Asia.
A task he believes beyond his meager talents is pulling Moon to Vietnam. In a chilling world of mystery and silence, disguise and deception, he'll risk everything for the sake of one little girl--and discover a Moon Mathias who's a better man than he ever thought he could be.
Review Quotes
"An atmospheric and successful thriller...a thoughtful tale of high adventure." -- San Jose Mercury News
"Hillerman does an exemplary job...offering plenty of romance and suspense." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"[It] proves Hillerman can write good fiction without calling in the Tribal Police." -- Entertainment Weekly