num_pages: 304
description: From the highly acclaimed author of Pure Slaughter Value comes this latter-day literary noir about an ex-pat in Cambodia eager to get home but taking all the wrong turns.Asher went to Cambodia to get away from Julie, his Harvard grad ex-girlfriend currently tending bar in a topless joint in New York. But when his UNESCO work cleaning bat dung from Khmer statues is finished, and he decides on a dicey heroin scheme as his means to get home with plenty of money to spare, it?s Julie whose help he solicits. She agrees, but plans go dangerously awry frighteningly fast. A pulsating plot and precise literary prose make 
  Lightning on the Sun 
a startlingly compelling and strangely poetic tale.
language: English
title: Lightning on the Sun
titlecomplete: Lightning on the Sun
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 223
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group