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A singularly effervescent book pivoting round the disappearance of any American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted enthusiast, slick law enforcement officials commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a bit of him. Mourning the recent lack of his mother, twentysome-thing Benicio - aka Benny - vacations to Manila to reconnect along with his estranged dad, Howard. But when he comes, his dad is nowhere to be found - departing an irritated son to summarize that Howard has let him down for the umpteenth time. However, his dad has actually been kidnapped with a meth-addled cabdriver, with grand ideas to sell him to local terrorists as bait in the country's never-ending ability struggle between insurgents, separatists, and democratic muscle. Benicio's search for Howard reveals more about his father's womanizing ways and suspicious business bargains, reopening the old hurts that he'd hoped to mend. Interspersed with the son's inquiry and the father's calamitous life in captivity are the high-octane interconnecting narratives of Reynato Ocampo, the local celebrity-hero policeman billed with rescuing Howard; Ocampo's ragtag team of wizardry-infused military; and Monique, a newbie officer at the American embassy whose family still feels feverishly unmoored in the Philippines. With blistering onward momentum, crackling dialogue, wonderfully bizarre converts, and glimpses into both Filipino and expat culture, the book marches toward a stunning climax, which finally challenges our regular ideas of family and identification and presents Yates as a powerful new voice in contemporary literature.
