A "sinuous, shattering thriller" (Booklist, starred review) with a
heart-stopping conclusion about a mysterious American woman who disappears in to
the Cambodian underworld, and the photojournalist who tracks her through the
clues left in her diary, by an author whose "plotting and pacing are as sharp
and original as his writing" (Nelson DeMille).
Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Lawless, drug-soaked, forgotten—it's where bad journalists
go to die. For once-great war photographer Will Keller, that's kind of a mission
statement: he spends his days floating from one score to the next, taking any
job that pays; his nights are a haze of sex, drugs, booze, and brawling. But
Will's downward spiral