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    Finding Moon
    Finding Moon
    Finding Moon
    Audiobook9 hours

    Finding Moon

    Written by Tony Hillerman

    Narrated by Erik Bergmann

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Tony Hillerman's bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos.

    Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled into a predictable routine. He knew who he was. He was the disappointing son of Victoria Mathias, the brother of the brilliant, recently dead Ricky Mathias and a man who could be counted on to solve small problems. But the telephone caller was an airport security officer, and the news he delivered handed Moon a problem as large as Southeast Asia.

    His mother, who should be in her Florida apartment, is fighting for her life in a Los Angeles hospital -- stricken while en route to the Philippines to bring home a grandchild they hadn't known existed. The papers in her purse send Moon into a world totally strange to him. They lure him down the back streets of Manila, to a rural cockfight, into the odd Filipino prison on Palawan Island and finally across the South China Sea to where Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge is turning Cambodia into killing fields and Communist rockets are beginning to fall on the outskirts of Saigon.

    Finding Moon is many things: a latter-day adventure epic, a deftly orchestrated romance, an arresting portrait of an exotic realm engulfed in turmoil, and a neatly turned tale of suspense. Most of all, it is a singular story of how a plain, uncertain man finds his best self.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJun 18, 2013
    ISBN9780062284808
    Finding Moon
    Author

    Tony Hillerman

    TONY HILLERMAN served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and received the Edgar and Grand Master Awards. His other honors include the Center for the American Indian’s Ambassador Award, the Spur Award for Best Western Novel, and the Navajo Tribal Council Special Friend of the Dineh Award. A native of Oklahoma, Tony Hillerman lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, until his death in 2008.

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    • 4/5
      I had expected another Chee or Leaphorn story. This is more of an adventure, than a mystery. The story is set at the tail end of the Vietnam war, the protagonist, Moon Methias, is searching for the daughter of his deceased brother. In the process of finding his neice, he also finds himself. The book is about him remaking himself through adventure that mounts, he persists in spite of himself. The reader is lead to believe the search is for the child, but much if it is about himself.

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    • 4/5
      Set in Southeast Asia, this novel is a departure from Mr. Hillerman's Navajo mysteries. Moon Mathias has let his past mistakes keep him from seeing his true self. As the title suggests, his experiences looking for his orphaned niece during the chaos at the end of the Vietnam War are a springboard into who he really is, not who he thinks he is. There's plenty of tension and misery in the novel, along with some subtle romance and genuine humanity in the midst of wartime insanity.

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    • 5/5
      I think this is the best of all Tony Hillerman books. Totally different. Great characters (as he always creates great characters!), but the story is top notch.
    • 3/5
      In the very last days of the Indochina war, as the U.S. backed governments I both nations are collapsing, Moon learns that his younger brother who died (technically as a civilian contractor rung his own helicopter company) in Indochina had left behind a baby daughter. Moon sets out to rescue her (or at least put in enough of an attempt to satisfy his conscience) and improbably succeeds with the aid of a Dutch young woman with whom he falls in love. Judging from the dedication, Hillerman himself served in Vietnam in the infantry, so the background is authentic. Aside from that, it is a fairly conventional adventure. less interesting than his Navajo mysteries.
    • 4/5
      As others report, this is not Leaphorn and Chee. It's an adventure set at the close of the Vietnam War--our hero (Moon) rescues his baby niece from the invading red hoard, does another good deed or two and finds himself. The web site states that Hillerman originally set this at the end of WWII, which would have also worked. Characters are believable and fully developed. Excellent story.
    • 3/5
      Moon Mathias lives with a great grief. He is determined not to fail again, but at what cost? This time he must go into Vietnam and Cambodia in an effort to find his niece and bring her out, but both countries are in the midst of upheaval and turmoil. It is 1975, America is pulling out of Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge are just beginning their cleansing, while everyone else seems to be fleeing danger, Moon must discover if he is to walk right into it.I learned a lot from this book, mostly the timing of events, but also cultural details and the sad facts of the failure of America in this time of history. Now, this is not a detailed account of the war or its causes, it simply mentions things in passing and looks at them more as someone who was living in the moment might have seen them. The author chose to create a brief tale of action rather than a long novel and it works well that way. It is not a mystery.
    • 5/5
      No Navajos in this Hillerman story, but Interesting characters in an exciting search in the middle of the dissolution of South Vietnam and Cambodia. Wonderfully told in true Hillerman fashion and read suberbly.
    • 4/5
      Finding Moon is a book set in 1976 during the Fall of Saigon. There were three people who united together on a quest to find lost items; a baby, an urn of a family member's bones and a brother. The three people went into the forests of Cambodia where the Khmer Rouge were brutally killing entire villages of people on their personal quests. The book from the beginning through the end captured the horrific challenges that were involved in the individual quests in a believable well described story. Four stars were awarded in this review.
    • 5/5
      Excellent plot, character development and historical connections. Very entertaining.
    • 4/5
      Well-written escapade to rescue a small child. The story is really about a man coming into his own, a voyage of self-discovery, set against the back drop of the collapsing South Vietnamese government. I wasn't as engaged in this Hillerman novel compared to his Southwest Navajo mysteries: perhaps because the debacle of American involvement in the SE Asian conflicts still rankles.