The penultimate leg of my journey overland from Indonesia to China. I entered the country halfway up, via the border with Thailand, and proceeded directly north, taking in along the way the capital city Vientiane, Vang Vieng, and Louang Phabang, before heading into Yunnan province of China.
A washed out journalist, posted to India to cover a bloody election campaign, uncovers truths about his son's life - and death - in the country, truths that test loyalties forged in the war zones of Bosnia and Rwanda. A fiercely evocative narrative of modern-day India, filled with the clamour and hot stinks of its capital, this is a novel of death woven through with life.
"The writing is very very good... the mysteriousness of Wyndham's death and the narrator's involvement will entice the reader to keep reading." - 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) Expert Reviewer