DJLM0-6 Denis Johnson - The Laughing Monsters.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Laughing Monsters: A Novel
Author: Denis Johnson
Copyright: 2014
Audiobook Copyright: 2014
Genre: Fiction - Thriller
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Abridged: No
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Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
A post-9/11 literary spy thriller from the National Book Award-winning
author of Tree of Smoke.
Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian, but travels on a U.S. passport.
After 10 years' absence, he returns to Freetown, the capital of Sierra
Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot
of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether
good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair allows himself to
be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless.
Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who
claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti
Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now,
but he remains, at 36, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he
was a decade ago.
Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back
of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown
from Colorado. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in
the Uganda-Congo borderland - but each of these travelers is keeping
secrets from the others.
Shadowed by Interpol, the Mossad, and MI6, Nair gets mired in lust and
betrayal in a landscape of frighteningly casual violence as he travels
with Adriko and Davidia, gets smuggled into a war zone, gets kidnapped
by the Congo Army, and is terrorized by a self-proclaimed god ruling
over a dying village. Their journey through a land abandoned by the
future leads Adriko, Nair, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new
light, but rather in a new darkness.
A high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world,
Denis Johnson's The Laughing Monsters shows one of our great novelists
at the top of his game.
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