Flight of the Hornbill (The Third Ray Sharp Novel) Review

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(More customer reviews)I've enjoyed both of Eric Stone's previous books, LIVING ROOM OF THE DEAD and GRAVE IMPORTS, and FLIGHT OF THE HORNBILL has all the strengths of the earlier books, plus one of the most vivid evocations of setting I've read in years. Stone obviously knows Indonesia inside out and loves it, and that comes through in his writing -- there are times you can actually see the colors and feel the humidity. He's working with a strong, multiple-layered story based in part on an actual gold scam, but what made the book most compelling for me were the characters, starting with continuing protagonist Ray Sharp, and the sheer quality of the writing. The Indonesians come off especially vividly, always a challenge for a writer who's presenting a culture that's not his or her own. It's appropriate that a shadow-puppet was chose for the cover although no shadow-puppet performance figures in the plot, because Stone shows us a world in which most of what is visible is actually shadow, and the puppeteers are well hidden. Great story, great characters, great pace, great setting. Just a terrific book, and I recommend it highly.

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Gold, a lot of it, has been discovered in the oil rich tropics of Sumatra. Or has it? From an American suburb incongruously set into a jungle clearing, to the sleazy bars of Jakarta; from a neighborhood floating on a river, to the dense, steaming rainforest; corporate investigator Ray Sharp's job is to ferret out the truth.Why does a Frenchman want to kill Ray? Who's been shoved out of a helicopter, and why? What's Ray's ex-wife, and her boyfriend, got to do with it?Loosely (very) based on the facts of the Bre-X gold fraud of 1997, Flight of the Hornbill is a thrill ride through an exotic Asian landscape

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