Smoking Poppy
- List Price: $19.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Pocket Books
- Publish date: 03/01/2003
Description:
Dan Innes hasn't spoken with his daughter, Charlie, for two years. The first news he's had of her is a call from the British Embassy in Bangkok, informing him that she is in a hellish Chiang Mai prison, awaiting probable execution for drug smuggling.
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Dan's shock and anger are rivaled only by a primal desire to rescue his estranged child -- and within days he journeys to the strange, mysterious land. He arrives at the prison -- questions and reprimands running through his head -- but his visit is inconclusive, and Dan finds himself following the faintest of trails in the lawless mountain region near the Myanmar border where opium grows in abundance.
What follows is a Heart of Darkness -- like journey through a shadowy, sensuous Thailand -- an entirely unpredictable novel about the meaning of fatherhood, family, and friendship that is alternately humorous and heart-wrenching, but never sentimental.
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