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The Reckoning Kindle Edition
Armed with only a camera and iron determination, thirty-year-old photojournalist Molly Drake arrives in modern-day Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War.
In this eerie wasteland pockmarked with human bones and live land mines, the people hold more secrets than the landscape, from aging archaeologist Duncan O'Brian to John Kleat, a caustic vet hunting for his long lost brother. When Molly's camera captures a flight helmet buried among Khmer Rouge victims, diplomatic powers force her and her civilian comrades off the dig.
But just as a typhoon looms offshore, the outcasts learn of an even bigger find. A mysterious expatriot guides them into the ruins of an ancient city, where they begin a harrowing search for the remains of an entire patrol of GIs that strayed in combat thirty years ago.
With storm winds hammering their jungle fortress, Molly discovers that a war she never knew never died. Her survival comes to depend on her journalistic skills to solve a forgotten murder among these warriors left behind. In the end, her only hope for salvation is to redeem the lost souls that surround her.
As stylishly written as it is suspenseful, The Reckoning is a thriller that illuminates the fragile thread between life and death, knowledge and ignorance, hope and horror. Bringing readers ever closer to enemy territory, it is a hair-raising journey into one of modern history's darkest periods and an intense look into the hearts still haunted by it.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAtria Books
- Publication dateJuly 6, 2004
- File size1190 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B000FC1V7Y
- Publisher : Atria Books (July 6, 2004)
- Publication date : July 6, 2004
- Language : English
- File size : 1190 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 384 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0743463005
- Best Sellers Rank: #533,421 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,562 in Suspense Action Fiction
- #2,792 in Women's Adventure Fiction (Books)
- #2,861 in Mystery Action Fiction (Kindle Store)
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Jeff Long is an extraordinary writer... Recommended.
At first, I was a little leery about this book. The subject matter of recovering soldier remains in Cambodia, didn't seem all that interesting to me, until I started reading futher in the book. I was so engaged in the book during my night time reading, I wouldn't get to sleep until 1 or 2 in the morning.
This was an excellent book to read. The last few chapters of the book kind of reminded me of the movie, "Sixth Sense", if you enjoyed that movie, you will enjoy this book.
Thanks Again Mr. Long!
Things turn weird when they and their escort of locals happen upon an ancient, lost city in the Cambodian jungle in pursuit of a lost company of soldiers. To take it much further than that would be to give something away, so I won't, but I'll say these three things:
- As with many weird stories, it's at its best before it's understood.
- There's a leech thing that happens again and again, which might be a metaphor for something I'm just too dense to pick up on.
- The lost city steals the show and is worth the price of admission. It's absolutely fantastic.
Fans of Jeff Long (including me, ever since I read The Descent) will get enough of that archaeological buzz on, but if this comes across as a little disappointed, it's that there isn't much more to The Reckoning than that. It's obvious Long quite wanted more, which is a shame. If the knockout blow hadn't been so glancing, it probably would have been something to behold.