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At Bookstores
December 2006
Nightfalls on Damascus
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Frederick Highland
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Peer Reviews
"Glorious shades of Joseph Conrad, but with wry humor! Splendidly
written and an intriguing adventure/mystery in the grand old style." -
Dewey Lambdin, author of the Alan Lewrie series
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"Frederick Highland's Ghost Eater
puts me in mind of one of those classic movies, the kind they don't make any
more. The book is peopled with rich, enigmatic characters whose pasts are
shrouded in mystery and whose motives are close held secrets. It takes us to a
time and place rarely visited - Sumatra in the mid-nineteenth century - and
sweeps us through the villages, jungles and rivers of that exotic land. There is
the ring of authenticity about the people and the locations that Highland
recreates, a quality that pulls us into the mysteries of the plot and the
mysterious land in which Ghost Eater
is set. This is a finely crafted novel, a book rich in character, authentic in
time and place." - James L. Nelson, author of the Brethern of the Coast
Series
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"Near-mythical in its texture and its ambitions,
Ghost Eater is unashamedly and convincingly Conradian in its
subject matter and scope, and in the raw and elemental language of its
telling. Highland has seamlessly grafted fiction and history to create a
tale at once part Biblical in its density and texture, and part
Boys'-Own-Adventure in the vigor and drive of its compulsive storytelling; a
tale whose never-ceasing plot is as ever-changing and, at times, as
intriguingly unfathomable as the river it follows. This is the work of a
devoted and accomplished story-teller, and of a gifted writer and craftsman,
for whom the completed tale is considerably more than the sum of its parts."
-Robert Edric, The Broken Lands |
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