From Publishers Weekly
This accomplished thriller, Campbell's fiction debut, boasts terse, hard-driving prose, trigger-smart pacing and an intriguing plot. Battle-scarred Vietnam vet Rainbow Porter dwells in ascetic solitude in the mountains above Albuquerque, tormented by his past and responsible to no one. A man of mysteriously independent means, he returns to the civilized world only when called upon to right some glaring injustice. His quiet existence is interrupted, however, by the appearance of April Bow, a Eurasian woman who fears that whoever set the trip-wired mine that killed her adoptive father, Rainbow's old war buddy Toker, may be after her as well. The pair travel across the Southwest, Mexico and Southeast Asia, making gruesome discoveries about each other and their shared past that jeopardize their growing love. A covert smuggling operation, a U.S. intelligence counter-operation, blackmail, deception and betrayal drive this intricately plotted narrative, which is charged with illicit sexual attraction and haunted by the ghosts of Vietnam. Campbell has all the makings of a top-notch genre writer.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From Library Journal
Rainbow Porter is a careful man, so when April Bow searches him out to ask for help in finding the killer of her adoptive father, he is suspicious. More ominous clues emerge as April discloses that the dead man is Porter's old army pal Toker and that April is the daughter of a Vietnamese woman Porter had loved from afar when he was a G.I. With a few other G.I.s, Porter and Toker had been involved in black market activity to set them all up successfully for civilian life. Now, after 20 years, people have begun to die. Porter searches his memory for clues to the murder, as well as to the identity of April's real father. First novelist Campbell writes in a spare, hardboiled style, and the clues are revealed seamlessly. Tension builds throughout the story to a satisfying climax. Recommended for most libraries.
- Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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edition.
