A flag for sunrise : a novel著者Robert Stone (American Novelist)

A Flag for Sunrise (1981) is a third novel by National Book Award for Fiction winner Robert Stone.

The book is set in fictional Central American country of Tecan on brink of revolution during the Post Vietnam Era, when potential errors in the foreign policy was highly magnified coupled with sense of lost identify by Americans. Tecan, the poverty stricken country, is there to be exploited by government, investors, and to anyone who has ambition. The revolution becomes a vicious battle ground to see who can profit the most from it.

There are three central characters, a disillusioned veteran of Vietnam, the idealistic nun, and a military deserter. They are the pawns and players of this revolution but also a reminders that lives of individuals are on the line during such events.

The novel questions the price of trying muster and pave the path of a nation imperialistically and idealistically.

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Product Description
In the Central American country of Tecan, Americans, terrorists, revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries, imported agents, and common men and women become involved in a maelstrom of upheaval, terror, and destruction.

Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. From the book's inception, readers will be seized by the dangers and nightmare suspense of life lived on the rim of a political volcano.