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The Camp: After the Cambodian Killing Fields
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Expected 9 Dec 26Newton, Massachusetts. Halloween, 1999. A stranger in a black mask rings the doorbell, says two words to a thirteen-year-old boy, and shoots him.
"The camp."
Dr. Ken Bell knows what the words mean. Nearly twenty years ago, in the bamboo hospital of the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the Thai border, he was a young volunteer doctor and Mony was the Cambodian refugee assigned as his interpreter. She had survived the Khmer Rouge and the killing fields. They fell in love, married, and built a life as two physicians outside Boston.
Now someone has followed them from the camp.
Their son survives. The attacks do not stop.
The family dog is poisoned.
Mony's clinic is firebombed.
Her sister is murdered on the walk home from the night shift.
Someone calls their eight-year-old daughter's name from outside the school fence.
Mony buys a gun. She makes late-night calls in Khmer. And she will not tell her husband what happened to her in Cambodia.
To save his children, Ken has to learn the truth about the woman he married. It begins in Phnom Penh in April 1975, the day the Khmer Rouge emptied the city.
A dual-timeline medical thriller of historical suspense, moving between two doctors' lives in 1999 Massachusetts, the Cambodian genocide and a refugee camp hospital on the Thai border, from an author who worked as a physician at Khao-I-Dang.
Perfect for readers of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan and Kristin Harmel's The Book of Lost Names.
"The camp."
Dr. Ken Bell knows what the words mean. Nearly twenty years ago, in the bamboo hospital of the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the Thai border, he was a young volunteer doctor and Mony was the Cambodian refugee assigned as his interpreter. She had survived the Khmer Rouge and the killing fields. They fell in love, married, and built a life as two physicians outside Boston.
Now someone has followed them from the camp.
Their son survives. The attacks do not stop.
The family dog is poisoned.
Mony's clinic is firebombed.
Her sister is murdered on the walk home from the night shift.
Someone calls their eight-year-old daughter's name from outside the school fence.
Mony buys a gun. She makes late-night calls in Khmer. And she will not tell her husband what happened to her in Cambodia.
To save his children, Ken has to learn the truth about the woman he married. It begins in Phnom Penh in April 1975, the day the Khmer Rouge emptied the city.
A dual-timeline medical thriller of historical suspense, moving between two doctors' lives in 1999 Massachusetts, the Cambodian genocide and a refugee camp hospital on the Thai border, from an author who worked as a physician at Khao-I-Dang.
Perfect for readers of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan and Kristin Harmel's The Book of Lost Names.
232 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication December 9, 2026
About the author
Glenn Cooper
53 books1,486 followersGlenn Cooper is an internationally bestselling thriller writer.
Glenn was born in New York City and grew up in nearby White Plains. He attended White Plains High School before enrolling at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he graduated from Harvard with an honors degree in archaeology. He then attended Tufts University School of Medicine and did his post-doctoral training at the New England Deaconess and the Massachusetts General Hospitals becoming a board-certified specialist in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. After practicing medicine, Glenn began a research career in the pharmaceutical industry which culminated in an eighteen-year position as the Chairman and CEO of a biotechnology company in Massachusetts. Glenn began writing screenplays over twenty years ago and his interest in movies prompted him to attend the graduate program in film production at Boston University. He is currently the chairman of a media company, Lascaux Media, which has produced three independent feature-length films. In 2006 Glenn turned his hand to novel-writing. His debut novel, THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD, the first in a trilogy, became an international bestseller and was translated into thirty languages. All of his seven published books have become top-ten international best-sellers.
Glenn currently lives in New Hampshire.
Glenn was born in New York City and grew up in nearby White Plains. He attended White Plains High School before enrolling at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he graduated from Harvard with an honors degree in archaeology. He then attended Tufts University School of Medicine and did his post-doctoral training at the New England Deaconess and the Massachusetts General Hospitals becoming a board-certified specialist in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. After practicing medicine, Glenn began a research career in the pharmaceutical industry which culminated in an eighteen-year position as the Chairman and CEO of a biotechnology company in Massachusetts. Glenn began writing screenplays over twenty years ago and his interest in movies prompted him to attend the graduate program in film production at Boston University. He is currently the chairman of a media company, Lascaux Media, which has produced three independent feature-length films. In 2006 Glenn turned his hand to novel-writing. His debut novel, THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD, the first in a trilogy, became an international bestseller and was translated into thirty languages. All of his seven published books have become top-ten international best-sellers.
Glenn currently lives in New Hampshire.
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Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
This is a remarkably engrossing novel by a new-to-me author.
The Camp begins with a shocking event that slowly reveals secrets the Bell family is hiding.
The dual timeline medical thriller is beautifully written and deeply felt and the themes of grief, love and trauma and navigated with compassion. I believe the success of this story is that it’s written with an insider’s eye; the author was a physician at the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp in Thailand and in Lowell, Massachusetts caring for the Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge terror. His experiences have equipped him with the tools to create an unforgettable story.
I’ll remember this story for the steadily mounting suspense due to the well-crafted dual timeline, the emotionally powerful circumstances, and the slice of history that was presented and lived out through Mony Bell.
Worthy of all the stars.
I was gifted this copy and was under no obligation to provide a review.
The Camp begins with a shocking event that slowly reveals secrets the Bell family is hiding.
The dual timeline medical thriller is beautifully written and deeply felt and the themes of grief, love and trauma and navigated with compassion. I believe the success of this story is that it’s written with an insider’s eye; the author was a physician at the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp in Thailand and in Lowell, Massachusetts caring for the Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge terror. His experiences have equipped him with the tools to create an unforgettable story.
I’ll remember this story for the steadily mounting suspense due to the well-crafted dual timeline, the emotionally powerful circumstances, and the slice of history that was presented and lived out through Mony Bell.
Worthy of all the stars.
I was gifted this copy and was under no obligation to provide a review.
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