Smoking Poppy

Description:

Graham Joyce
travels to an enthralling, suspense-charged landscape in this hallucinatory novel of a father's quest to save his daughter -- without destroying himself.

Dan Innes has received shattering news from the British Embassy in Bangkok: his daughter, Charlie, whom he hasn't seen or spoken to in two years, has been imprisoned in a Thai jail for drug smuggling. Angry, terrified, seething with reprimands and questions, Dan leaves for Thailand. But the jail at Chiang Mai marks the beginning of his search rather than the end. Following the faintest of trails up into the lawless, dangerous mountain region near Myanmar, where opium grows abundantly, Dan must retrace Charlie's steps -- and brave the same traps that have swallowed her...on a terrifying mission of self-discovery, blind faith, and salvation.

Selected Reviews:

"While novels like REQUIEM and INDIGO have helped establish Graham Joyce's reputation as one of the finest writers working in the field, SMOKING POPPY shows that, like Jonathan Carroll before him, he has transcended genre considerations and delivered the finest noel of his career."

--Jonathan Strahan, Locus