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Here's a cocktail of World War II memories, a love story and a big adventure across Burma, China and India that can leave you dizzy with its twists and turns.
The Last Sunrise
Robert Ryan, Headline Book Publishing
Here's a cocktail of World War II memories, a love story and a big adventure across Burma, China and India that can leave you dizzy with its twists and turns.
There's this young bloke called Lee Crane, an easy-going pilot flying Tomahawk fighter planes for the Flying Tigers, American volunteers supporting the allies against the Japanese.
Memories of the past haunt him and when he, verily, runs into her, one is not sure whether it is the same woman. In a world where everybody seems to be on a double-crossing trip, personas end up as fleeting images.
Robert Ryan's strength, though, is in the arresting descriptions of war-torn Indo-China and the perils of flying. So vivid that his characters get too icy at times.
Sample this: when his friend Wright's Tomahawk nosedives and is reduced to "a knot of twisted black smoke punched its way into the sky", Crane can only bite his lip to keep his composure.
Another colleague says, "One plane, one pilot lost, one almost scrap." Their insensitivity can leave you cold. But if that's still your cup of tea, then The Last Sunrise won't come shrouded in a pallid glow.
Robert Ryan, Headline Book Publishing
Here's a cocktail of World War II memories, a love story and a big adventure across Burma, China and India that can leave you dizzy with its twists and turns.
There's this young bloke called Lee Crane, an easy-going pilot flying Tomahawk fighter planes for the Flying Tigers, American volunteers supporting the allies against the Japanese.
He has a crush on a gorgeous Anglo-Indian girl, but a rapid Japanese invasion into Burma forces him away from her. Seven years later in Indo-China, Crane is flying demobbed transport planes for a bid.
Memories of the past haunt him and when he, verily, runs into her, one is not sure whether it is the same woman. In a world where everybody seems to be on a double-crossing trip, personas end up as fleeting images.
Robert Ryan's strength, though, is in the arresting descriptions of war-torn Indo-China and the perils of flying. So vivid that his characters get too icy at times.
Sample this: when his friend Wright's Tomahawk nosedives and is reduced to "a knot of twisted black smoke punched its way into the sky", Crane can only bite his lip to keep his composure.
Another colleague says, "One plane, one pilot lost, one almost scrap." Their insensitivity can leave you cold. But if that's still your cup of tea, then The Last Sunrise won't come shrouded in a pallid glow.
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