Full name: Lightning on the Sun: A Novel

Author: Robert Bingham Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780385488686 0385488688

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. Similar books: Nahoonkara by Peter Grandbois Beyond This Place by Archibald J. Cronin The Deer Park by Norman Mailer The Judas Tree by Archibald J. Cronin The Snow Falcon by Stuart Harrison Temptation by Douglas Kennedy Lord of the Barnyard by Tristan Egolf The Men's Club by Leonard Michaels The Clockwork Testament or Enderby's End by Anthony Burgess Perfect Happiness by Penelope Lively Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers Never Love a Stranger by Harold Robbins My Son, My Son by Howard Spring The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn The Ambassador by Morris West A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss The Help by Kathryn Stockett A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini East of Eden by John Steinbeck A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving