- Mass Market Paperback: 354 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; Reissue edition (Aug 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0061092614
- ISBN-13: 978-0061092619
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.7 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,269,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Hillerman does an exemplary job...offering plenty of romance and suspense."--San Francisco Chronicle
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Tony Hillerman's bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos.
Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled into a predictable routine. He knew who he was. He was the disappointing son of Victoria Mathias, the brother of the brilliant, recently dead Ricky Mathias and a man who could be counted on to solve small problems. But the telephone caller was an airport security officer, and the news he delivered handed Moon a problem as large as Southeast Asia.
His mother, who should be in her Florida apartment, is fighting for her life in a Los Angeles hospital -- stricken while en route to the Philippines to bring home a grandchild they hadn't known existed. The papers in her purse send Moon into a world totally strange to him. They lure him down the back streets of Manila, to a rural cockfight, into the odd Filipino prison on Palawan Island and finally across the South China Sea to where Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge is turning Cambodia into killing fields and Communist rockets are beginning to fall on the outskirts of Saigon.
"Finding Moon" is many things: a latter-day adventure epic, a deftly orchestrated romance, an arresting portrait of an exotic realm engulfed in turmoil, and a neatly turned tale of suspense. Most of all, it is a singular story of how a plain, uncertain man finds his best self.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, April 12 (Agence France-Presse)-The United States abandoned its embassy here this morning, with six helicopters sweeping into the embassy grounds to evacuate the ambassador and his remaining staff. Read the first page
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, April 12 (Agence France-Presse)-The United States abandoned its embassy here this morning, with six helicopters sweeping into the embassy grounds to evacuate the ambassador and his remaining staff. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
"Moon" Mathias, midwestern journalist, receives a phone call that his brother has died in Viet Nam and left a business, a wife, and a daughter. Moon doesn't really want to leave his comfort zone with the paper to try and get them out. After all, Viet Nam's a mess--the war's winding down to a looming defeat. All of Southeast Asia's unstable. Unfortunately, others have higher regard for Moon's abilities than he does. In a short time he's drawn into an adventure with new, different friends, and a new Moon. This is one of Hillerman's rare jaunts out of his comfort zone on the reservation in New Mexico. It's a refreshing change of pace. His recent adventures of Sgt. Chee and Lt. Leaphorn have been losing the excitement and sense of locale that attracted me in "A Thief of Time." When a writer like Hillerman (or P. Cornwall, recently) recognizes the need for a change of direction in their work, and takes a detour, I'm ready to go along with them. "Finding Moon" was a fun diversion from Hillerman's formula. Is it a plausible story? Not very; but this is a novel, not an oeuvre. If I want the facts, there's always the newspaper.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Malcolm Thomas Mathias (Moon) finds out that his brother who died in a plane crash left behind a child in the Cambodia- Vietnam region toward the end of the war. The story is about the struggle in the retrieval of the child.
This book has all the Hillerman attributes with the exception of location and culture. There is probably a different reader target that can relate to this book. The problem comes with expectations more than content. The characters are different and the environment is different. The writing style is the same familiar style.
This book has all the Hillerman attributes with the exception of location and culture. There is probably a different reader target that can relate to this book. The problem comes with expectations more than content. The characters are different and the environment is different. The writing style is the same familiar style.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I expected either Jim Chee or Joe Leaphorn and got neither
Overcoming that prejudice was hard, but the more I read of the book the better I liked it. Good change of pace.
Overcoming that prejudice was hard, but the more I read of the book the better I liked it. Good change of pace.
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Hillerman out of his element
Malcolm Thomas Mathias (Moon) finds out that his brother who died in a plane crash left behind a child in the Cambodia- Vietnam region toward the end of the war. Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2006 by bernie
Hillerman out of his element
Malcolm Thomas Mathias (Moon) finds out that his brother who died in a plane crash left behind a child in the Cambodia- Vietnam region toward the end of the war. Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2005 by bernie
Hillerman is excellent even off the Reservation!
Hillerman is the kind of writer who draws the reader in with his sense of place and character. I was 19 years old in 1975 and was quite unaware of the last days of Vietnam that... Read more
Published on 21 Sep 1998
Completely different from his usual--and yet the same.
Hillerman seems to have had a deep need to write Finding Moon--the same way he seems to have HAD to write such books as Dancehall of the Dead or The Dark Wind. Read more
Published on 17 Aug 1997
This is Hillerman?
I guess I was expecting the same kind of quality I've discovered in the Chee/Leephorn books. First off, this was NO mystery and as even a mainstream novel it didn't work very... Read more
Published on 12 April 1997
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