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Deep in a vast tropical rain forest, Kit and Lara escape the nullness of modern life doing charitable work in a jungle village. With them is their tiny baby, Helen, who flourishes under the anxious care of her father. Their life of idyllic isolation is shattered by the arrival of an outsider with frightening news: close at hand, across the border, violence is looming. Hidden in a tiny memory card, Kit unwittingly holds evidence of the world-shattering event that is unfolding, the desperate power-play of a flailing Superpower. Separated from Lara, with war erupting around them, Helen and Kit are forced to flee through the forest with a band of local children, pursued by a ruthless and determined army. Caught between the struggle of rival powers, Kit must keep his baby daughter alive while protecting the secret that his pursuers will kill to get their hands on. In The Green Heart is the gripping story of the human cost of individual resistance to the forces of state power. It is a political thriller in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene and a heartbreaking tale of fatherly love.
About the author
Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor of
The Times. He was born in 1969 and was educated at Oxford. He has been visiting Asia for eighteen years and since 1995 has lived in Tokyo as a foreign correspondent, first for the
Independent and now for
The Times. He has reported from twenty-one countries and several wars, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Kosovo and Macedonia. His work has also appeared in the
London Review of Books and the
New York Times Magazine. He is the author of
In The Time of Madness, an eyewitness account of the violence that interrupted in Indonesia in the 1990s, and
People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman.
