Finding Moon, Tony Hillerman
Finding Moon, Tony Hillerman
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Finding Moon

Author: Tony Hillerman

Narrator: Erik Bergmann

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/18/2013


Synopsis

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.

About 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on October 06, 2019

I absolutely LOVED this book! It is not Hillerman's usual fare and I think it is far better :) This was the last book I had left to read that he has written and in this case, I did save the best for last.......more

Goodreads review by Theophilus (Theo) on February 27, 2012

319 pages of excellent storytelling, without sex or excess violence. The main character is a small-town newspaper worker from Colorado who is suddenly thrust into the final days of the Vietnam war by his dead brother. Moon Mathias is a Vietnam veteran who has his life back in order, or so he thinks,......more

Goodreads review by Howard on April 25, 2025

4 Stars for Finding Moon (audiobook) by Tony Hillerman read by Erik Bergmann. A man is challenged with bringing home his recently deceased brother’s child from Southeast Asia. It’s April of 1975 and the world is kind of chaotic as the war in Vietnam is coming to an end. The family wasn’t aware of th......more

Goodreads review by Lena on May 13, 2019

Just as everyone is fleeing Vietnam, and the surrounding Pol Pot bloodbath, Moon Mathias is ordered by his mother to go in and find his dead brothers alleged illegitimate baby. Along the way Moon collects a motley group of people with equally unreasonable expectations of him. I enjoyed the recurring......more

Goodreads review by Bill on July 27, 2009

Hillerman is not at his best when he leaves his milieu of the U.S. Southwest. This predictable book finds his protagonist, a newspaper managing editor, searching for his recently deceased brother's baby daughter by a Cambodian woman. So he and a crew of people who have attached themselves to him hav......more