A Flag for Sunrise

Zusatztext 'Stone is his own man! indentured to nobody in his ability to play on our nerves . . . it is now clear that Stone is the strongest novelist of the post-Vietnam era' Newsweek Informationen zum Autor Robert Stone is the award-winning author of several novels, including the bestsellers Outerbridge Reach and Damascus Gate . Klappentext 'A novel of immense authority and force' Salman Rushdie‘A novel of immense authority and force’ Salman Rushdie Zusammenfassung A Flag for Sunrise is a novel of Americans drawn into the maelstrom of Tecan, a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. At a mission on the coast a priest is lapsing into alcoholic mysticism, while a young American nun is veering towards commitment to the cause. In a bar in Brooklyn, Frank Holliwell is lunching with an old CIA friend who is begging for a favour. On the Tex–Mex border, Pablo, a Coast Guard deserter, loco on speed, is about to take a job carrying mysterious contraband to Tecan. As these lives converge, as this small, crowded world erupts, the novel builds to an electrifying climax.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Stone
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9781447267911
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-6791-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Guides; Adventure, FICTION / Thrillers / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Adventure / action fiction