MIKE BOND wordt door de BBC de "meester van de existentiële thriller" genoemd en door de Washington Times "een van de meest opwindende auteurs van de 21e eeuw". Zijn door critici bejubelde romans beelden de aangeboren honger van het menselijk hart naar het goede uit, de intense vreugden van liefde, de terreur en woede van de strijd, de sinistere grillen van de internationale politiek en multinationale ondernemingen, en de schoonheid van de verdwijnende natuurlijke wereld. Bonds verhalen duiken in de complexiteit van de menselijke geest en benadrukken tegelijkertijd urgente milieuproblemen.
Two pals go on their annual hunting trip with their long time guide and discovered a small plane that has crashed on the desolate mountainside in the snow. And discover more snow, cocaine. What two of them decide to do places them in a downward spiral from which there is no escape. Mike Bond's latest is getting great reviews.
A thriller set in Africa involving poaching and kidnapping.
"An extraordinary and deftly crafted novel that combines interesting characters within an historically detailed background... a fascinating read from cover to cover." - MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW From the war-shattered jungles of Vietnam to America's burning cities, near-death in Tibet, peace marches, the battle of Hué and the battle of the Pentagon, wild drugs, rock concerts, free love, CIA coups in Indonesia and Greece, the Six Days' War, and Bobby Kennedy's last campaign, Freedom puts you in the Sixties as if it were now. Mick leaves for the Himalayas while Troy heads to Vietnam with the Marines. Daisy starts her PhD in brain research, and Tara battles heroin as her rock band reaches stardom. Troy is soon caught up in mind-numbing combat in Vietnam, while Mick returns to the States to lead the antiwar effort. Tara's band signs a Motown contract amid the Detroit riots. At Stanford, Daisy expands her study of the human brain under LSD and other mind-altering drugs. Troy falls in love with a Vietnamese teacher and is slowly losing faith in the War. Freedom ends the night before the Tet uprising in Vietnam that will change the War, and trap Troy and his beloved in the fires of hell.
This first of a seven book series follows four young friends through the turbulent 1960s in America--presidential assassination, Vietnam war, a battle for civil rights, and the explosion of sex, drugs, rock 'n roll.