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Title:
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Black Water |
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Authors:
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Doughty, Louise |
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Genre:
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Fiction |
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Pages:
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344 |
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Year:
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2016 |
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Language:
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English |
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Description:
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Risk analyst John Harper is twiddling his thumbs in some compulsory 'time-out' in the hills of Bali; his Amsterdam-based intelligence organisation is not happy with his recent 'errors of judgement' around the current unrest. It's 1998 and as he reflects on his past, especially his earlier role in Indonesia's coup and counter coup of 1965, he glimpses the tantalising possibility of a different future with the arrival of Rita, a teacher with her own troubled past.
Moving between time periods, this is a story of personal and national turmoil, steeped in bribery and corruption and the legacies of colonialism and the Cold War, but compassionate in its portrayal of a man wrestling with the moral anguish of personal responsibility.
Comments from BDS Reviewers:"Well written and well researched."
"Well written and open-ended. It highlights relatively unknown, but important, history."
"It does jump around a bit in various time-periods, but it's still easy to follow."
"Perhaps the book would be of more interest to those who have a knowledge of or interest in Indonesia and its history."
"The author is very good at creating a sense of menace and fear."
"The historic facts of the 1960s in Indonesia are very informative."
"I do believe this would be a very good book for men's groups."
"A taut psychological thriller with a slow build-up which keeps the reader's interest right up to the last page."
"The writer does a very good job in describing the conflict and guilt felt by the protagonist."
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Categories:
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Fiction, Adventure/Exploration, Culture/Ethnic/Racial, Faction, Grief/loss, Morals/Ethics, Suspense/Thriller, Indonesia, 2019 Titles |
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