Lightning on the Sun - by Robert Bingham (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the highly acclaimed author of "Pure Slaughter Value" comes this latter-day literary noir about an expatriate in Cambodia eager to get home but taking all the wrong turns.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>From the highly acclaimed author of <b>Pure Slaughter Value</b> comes this latter-day literary noir about an ex-pat in Cambodia eager to get home but taking all the wrong turns. <p/> 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 <b><i>Lightning on the Sun </i></b>a startlingly compelling and strangely poetic tale.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[A] smart, stinging literary thriller reminiscent of Graham Greene and Robert Stone."-<i>San Francisco Chronicle <p/></i>"[A] gripping literary thriller.... Bingham effortlessly builds suspense."-Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times <p/></i>"A powerful story about desire, greed, and the hope for redemption in a fallen world."-Alan Cheuse<br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Robert Bingham was the author of the highly praised short story collection <b>Pure Slaughter Value</b>. He held an M.F.A. from Columbia and was a founding editor of the literary magazine <i>Open City.</i> His fiction and nonfiction appeared in <i>The New Yorker, </i> and he worked for two years as a reporter for the <i>Cambodia Daily.</i> He died in 1999.
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