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RAINBOYS
“A fast paced thriller about conspiracy, betrayal, lust for power and human tragedy in the Indonesia of the nineteen-nineties.”RainBoys is a modern Shadow Play where generals with a lust for political power cruelly play puppet masters against their innocent prey in Indonesia and East Timor. But even the demands of involvement in such cruel and covert operations does not stop the love that was to grow between retired Brigadier Untung and Scottish bridge engineer, Liz Duncan.
532 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 19, 2012
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June 14, 2011
This was really a 2.5 star book--not very literary, but suspenseful. I had the review at 3 stars, then changed it to two after writing the following and reviewing it:
The writing was dry and the characters were shallow. Somewhat like an action film that you secretly liked but is somewhat cheesy. Would make a good movie probably--a great movie if there was good acting. It's a historical fiction (although very recent "fiction") about the Indonesian unrest and overthrow of Suharto in the 1990s and how it was orchestrated by a small number of retired elite military officers. There were a handful of "love stories" that were unconvincing. If I wasn't on vacation, I probably wouldn't have finished it. A decent beach/vacation read, but I bought it used in a bookstore in Thailand and it was also full of typos which was somewhat annoying.
The writing was dry and the characters were shallow. Somewhat like an action film that you secretly liked but is somewhat cheesy. Would make a good movie probably--a great movie if there was good acting. It's a historical fiction (although very recent "fiction") about the Indonesian unrest and overthrow of Suharto in the 1990s and how it was orchestrated by a small number of retired elite military officers. There were a handful of "love stories" that were unconvincing. If I wasn't on vacation, I probably wouldn't have finished it. A decent beach/vacation read, but I bought it used in a bookstore in Thailand and it was also full of typos which was somewhat annoying.
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