LIGHTNING ON THE SUN: A Novel

From the highly acclaimed author ofPure Slaughter Valuecomes 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 makeLightning on the Suna startlingly compelling and strangely poetic tale.