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The reckoning / Jeff Long.

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Thorndike Press, c2004.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Missing in action -- Fiction.

Americans -- Cambodia -- Fiction.

Women photographers -- Fiction.

Photojournalists -- Fiction.

Archaeologists -- Fiction.

Cambodia -- Fiction.

Large print ed.

461 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.

"A thriller"--Cover.

Armed with only a camera and iron determination, thirty-year-old photojournalist Molly Drake arrives in modern-day Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War. In this eerie wasteland pockmarked with human bones and live land mines, the people hold more secrets than the landscape, from aging archaeologist Duncan O'Brian to John Kleat, a caustic vet hunting for his long lost brother. When Molly's camera captures a flight helmet buried among Khmer Rouge victims, diplomatic powers force her and her civilian comrades off the dig. But just as a typhoon looms offshore, the outcasts learn of an even bigger find. A mysterious expatriot guides them into the ruins of an ancient city, where they begin a harrowing search for the remains of an entire patrol of GIs that strayed in combat thirty years ago. With storm winds hammering their jungle fortress, Molly discovers that a war she never knew never died. Her survival comes to depend on her journalistic skills to solve a forgotten murder among these warriors left behind. In the end, her only hope for salvation is to redeem the lost souls that surround her.

Suspense fiction.

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