Swinson David - City On The Edge - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 1972, Beirut Lebanon. Young American boy Matthew lives with his mother and father a rising foreign service attache in an exclusive community of ex - patriots. It is the summer Matthew becomes a teenager falls in love nearly dies and watches his family and the city fall apart. It is in this world of Western schemers and local merchants of hoodlums and politicians that Matthew begins to solve the mystery of who his father really is and what role he is really playing in the upheaval that is shaking the city loose of its old civilized and way and ushering in a new and frightening radicalism. This is the story of a boy and a family besieged. Intimate in scope and wrenching in its vision of lost innocence CITY ON THE EDGE is a mystery and spy story from the past and a coming of age story for our time.
Title: City On The Edge
Author(s): Swinson David
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Barcode: 9780316528542
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 5/25/2021
Category: Crime & Mystery