Taz Richards is returning to Indonesia to face his father’s terrible past and the secret that he took to his grave. A secret that could save Taz’s life. Or kill him.
Taz has a starring role in Daud Subowo and Willard Boronkay’s Deep State operation to overthrow the President of Indonesia. Dewi Sinari, one of the premiere dancers in the country, is preparing for the Waicak Celebration at Borobudur Temple. Daud links Taz to a bombing of the Indonesian National Monument, which kindles unrest in an already unstable Jakarta.
Hounded by an angry mob Taz and Dewi are thrown together amid the unrest. The two of them escape a seething Jakarta, setting in motion a dangerous chase across the exotic island of Java.
Boronkay herds them toward 2,000 year-old Borobudur Temple and the final act of a drama designed to protect the terrible secret Taz’ father died trying to tell the world. A secret Taz must unravel if he and Dewi have any chance to survive.
"Harding's writing has admirable reminders of the best of LeCarre'."
-Rowland Barber
Pulitzer-nominated author of Somebody Up There Likes Me
Robert L. Harding lived for more than a year in Indonesia and speaks and writes Indonesian. While in Indonesia he became enamored with the people and culture of Indonesia and traveled extensively on the island of Java.
The haunting story of Indonesia’s “Red Bridges” piqued his interest, and, after returning from Indonesia, he devoured everything he could about the brutal Gestapu coup, where as many as 1,000,000 people were killed. This novel was born of the desire to tell the world that story.