KOCH, Christopher : The Year of Living Dangerously : PB Book

The Year of Living Dangerously

by Christopher J Koch 

ISBN: 1863306137

FORMAT: Paperback 13cm x 20cm

PAGES: 296

CONDITION: Good: light shelf and reading wear, light page tanning.

EDITION: c1978 reprint 1995

WEIGHT: 360g (parcel rate) 

Jakarta 1965, Waiting for explosions. The city smells of frangipani, kretek cigarettes and fear. It is the year of living dangerously.

The charismatic god-king Sukarno has bought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a shadow play.

Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamiltion and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. In Kwan's secret fantasy life, both Sukarno and Hamilton are heroes. But his heroes betray him, and Billy is driven to desperate action. As the Indonesion shadow play erupts into terrible reality, a complex personal tragedy of love, obsession and betrayal comes to its climax.

 Thanks for your interest.