Highways to a War

ISBN-13: 9780140247572 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 496 str.

Christopher J. Koch; C. J. Koch

Opis

A gripping tale . . . A convincing, page-turning evocation of recent history. The New York Times

Ray Barton travels to war-ravaged Southeast Asia to search for his missing friend Michael Langford, a brilliant, risk-taking combat photographer who was stolen into Khmer Rouge Cambodia on a mysterious mission and disappeared. The search illuminates Langford s heroism, his fierce loyalties, and the personal highways he has traveled to war. Langford s empathy for the brave but poorly commanded Cambodian troops and his love for a young Cambodian woman have led him in the end to put down the camera and take up the gun in a foreign struggle he had made his own.
Koch richly evokes Indochina from the deceptively tranquil rice paddies of South Vietnam to the corrupt, doomed pink-and-white city of Phnom Penh. Highways to a War is a story of intense relationships forged in a dangerous and hallucinatory land that continues to haunt the American soul.
An absorbing, deeply moving . . . tale of love and heroism. . . . The evocation of the Cambodian landscape . . . is truly haunting. Kirkus Reviews

Highways to a War ranks among the best of the . . . literature that has come out of the agony of the wars in Southeast Asia. The Orlando Sentinel"