A Flag for Sunrise

Paperback

Main Details

Title A Flag for Sunrise
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert Stone
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 153
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Thriller/suspense
Adventure
ISBN/Barcode 9781447267911
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 27 March 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Robert Stone is the award-winning author of several novels, including the bestsellers Outerbridge Reach and Damascus Gate.

Reviews

'Destined to be one of the books that will justify our time at the bar of literary history' New Republic 'Hold on to your tricorn hat, or your cruciform, or your Uzi ... Mr Stone kicks the brain around; we live in heresy; Satan prevails. A Flag for Sunrise is the best novel I've read since Dostoevsky escaped from Omsk' New York Times 'An ambitious adventure story about modern imperialism and modern morality ... an action novel well garnished with scraps of wisdom and observation; Graham Greene and Hemingway are this book's tutelary gods' Sunday Times '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