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"…compelling story lines…that come together in a gripping climax." -- Newsweek

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Heaven Lake Press, Trade paperback edition (2004) ISBN:9749218612 Binding is quality trade paperback. New condition. 6" - 9 1/4" tall. Publisher's inventory.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Heart And Soul Of Burma, March 17, 2005

By	Sean Bunzick (Cape Cod,Massachusetts,USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waiting for the Lady (Hardcover)

I have been a diehard fan of Chris Moore since 1992 and that love never dies, particularly when you have the intellectual pleasure of reading something as striking as Waiting for the Lay. I think that even though it's not quite the same as a Vinnie Calvino PI novel or the Smiles trilogy, it's still one of his best books.
I've also never encountered one of Chris' novels where the story is done in first-person narrative but in this case, it works quite well as far as I'm concerned.
I have to admit that Patricia Naylor's commentary wasn't too pleasing because I think in many ways, she missed the entire point of the main character being the way he is. Is he a questionable, none-too-successful American expat living in Bangkok who might not necessarily be your best friend? Of course he is but that's what I think helps to make this tale unfold so beautifully--he's a hero who isn't and the time in Burma matures him greatly. No, he's no Vinnie Calvino or the expats living at the Thermae but that's half the appeal, liking a man you normally wouldn't like.
Then too, I guess Patricia must have seen a different Burma than what I encounter in Tachilek every time I do a visa run from Chiang Mai. Yes, indeed, the Burmese people are beautiful people who do their best to be open with you but I think Patricia has missed the grim reality that Burma is one of the most repressive hellholes on the planet and this is through the direction of such organizations as SLORC which cheerfully torture, rape, imprison, kill or use "inferiors" to step ahead of the army troops to "find" landmines along the borderlines and within the Golden Triangle. That's the Burma I know and I honestly feel Chris has covered it as truthfully as he can while still staying within the parameters of the story itself.
It's because of his skills that you get the story that hooks you on Page 1 and carries you through to the end. I reccomend this book to anyone who wants a revealing glimpse into Burma (it shall never be Myanmar to me unless Aung San Su Kyi wishes that herself as the legally-elected ruler of this country) as well as characterizations that may upset you but I promise will never bore you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Author Who Captures the Essence of Asia through the Eyes of an Ex-Pat, August 6, 2005

By	Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Christopher G. Moore is a writer of immense talent and though he is not well known in this country, if he continues writing novels as rich in intrigue and atmosphere as WAITING FOR THE LADY, his moment will come. Writing in the vein of W. Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, and a dollop of Joseph Conrad and DH Lawrence (to mention the first that come to mind!), Moore knows how to sculpt a tale of intrigue while informing his reader about strange and exotic places and the turbulent histories that influence his choice of story line.

Sloan and Hart are two longtime artist friends living in Thailand who stumble on a series of photographs associated with a dying promise that the photographs will be returned to the mysterious lady captured in an odd way. They two have co-authored (Sloan as a photographer, art as a writer) a book on the Chin people of Burma, a group of people known mostly for their tradition of tattooing the faces of the women with spider-like tattoos), and all indications point toward re-visiting their old haunts. The two travel to Myanmar (as Burma is called today), encounter old acquaintances who offer clues as to where their trek will best follow, and soon they are joined by Sarah - a woman writing her PhD on the tattoo symbolism of the Chin people! Sloan and Hart are also motivated on this trip to uncover Ming china, a source of potential fortune for these worldly guys. How the history of Myanmar influences their journey and leads the threesome into bizarre circumstance is the mode of intrigue and page-turning story that results.

Moore is at his best in creating situations and atmospheres and writing with an eloquent style: "Nothing is fixed in the past or the present. What we call actual emerges from a fog of many possibilities. Until we observe an event, the forces are fluid, everywhere at once, neither here nor there, diffused and open-ended. It is only afterwards that the witness gathers evidence and only then can anyone say that the event ever happened in precisely that way." If Moore has a flaw that could bear correcting it is in his tendency to become sidetracked by either words or events or tangential information that at times stops the story's propulsion.

This is a fascinating read, one that educates as well as entertains. When Moore elects to be comedic, he does so with aplomb, much in the way Shakespeare used comic relief to allow his audiences time to breathe from the dramas. Christopher G. Moore has written 18 books and if they all approach the quality of this novel, then he most assuredly deserves a wide audience in the USA. Where are the readers from the film studios scouting for terrific ideas for adventure films......? Grady Harp, August 05

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Wait is Over, September 9, 2004

By	John Lewis "Old Asia Hand" (Atlanta, Ga. USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Waiting for the Lady (Hardcover)

If you are looking for a standard contemporary history of Myamar (Burma) you should look elsewhere. But, if you are interested in Asia and the souls, some of them lost, who populate the region "Waiting for the Lady" is the book for you.
Mr. Moore works on a very large canvas splashed with laughter and tears. His landscape draws on the political intrigue that contiunes to swirl around Myamar's pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. But the book is more. It deals with the poignant memories of the Pacific War that remain at best just below the surface throughout most of Asia, and is peopled by a cast of characters running the gamut from a newlywed Burmese couple who can't keep their hands off of each other, to a blind fortune teller, to haplass smugglers, to military intelligence goons, to folks in the countryside just trying to cope in a poor country run by a repressive regime, to a mysterious young tattooed woman who holds the key to long unanswered questions who just happens to make her first appearance in a long-lost photograph. That Mr. Moore's narrator and his best friend are both Bangkok-based expats trying to keep their heads above the proverbial klong water, financially and morally, only spices up the tale.
In "Waiting for the Lady" Mr. Moore has offered up a unique snapshot of not only a country little known and understood in much of the world, but also a richly emotional look at its people.
Mr. Moore's knowledge of the region and that that he is not afraid to take chances, and pull no punches, when dealing with cultural and social challenges richly rewards the reader. As Mr. Moore has shown in his numerous previous books, he is a literary novelist who disguises his art as entertainment. A ruse that works well.
Put down the history books and socio-political studies and pick up a copy of "Waiting for the Lady". Those who know Asia will nod their heads in agreement. Those who don't may be surprised. For all it is a very good, and enjoyable, read.