Beyond year zero, Lawrence Held
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Beyond year zero, Lawrence Held
Language
eng
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Literary form
fiction
Main title
Beyond year zero
Responsibility statement
Lawrence Held
Summary
Carl Meissner is a 32 year old unemployed journalist who was fired over his reporting of a paedophile scandal involving a prominent Sydney judge, and is hired by Joe Goldman, a rich currency trader/property developer, to find his missing twin brother, whom a private detective has traced to Cambodia. Beyond Year Zero is the story of Carl's journey into the dark heart of Cambodia - and simultaneously into himself - along the way becoming entangled in the lives of the mysterious 'Bible Bill' Butt and the two beautiful Eurasian sisters, Bopha and Dara, and being forced to confront Cambodia's dark underworld of child pornography, trafficking in human body parts, personal and political corruption, cannibalism, incest, lust and drugs. Having got himself into this seething milieu, where the only certainties are cruelty and violence, Carl then has to get himself out
Target audience
adult
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