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Moonlight Hotel

Name: Moonlight Hotel
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Author: Scott Anderson
ISBN: 9780307387035

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Published on Aug 14, 2007 | 432 Pages

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Published on Aug 14, 2007 | 432 Pages

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David Richards is a mid-level diplomat assigned to the sleepy, backwater Middle Eastern kingdom of Kutar in 1983. He spends his days on minor development projects and his nights seducing ambassador’s wives. But when news of a tribal skirmish reaches the capital, Richards soon finds himself embroiled in a civil war as Colonel Munn, a pint-sized, blustery Texan assigned to Kutar, organizes a preemptive offensive against the rebellious forces. After Munn is immediately routed and the rebellion seizes control of the capitol, Richards holes up in the ramshackle Moonlight Hotel with fellow expatriates, determined to ride out the conflict despite the growing chaos and destruction that are heading towards them.

This is a stunning and thrilling novel of war and survival from an acclaimed war correspondent.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia.

“A tour de force, variously satire, allegory, romance, [and] war novel. . . . Elegantly written, ferociously imagined.” —The Washington Post Book World“Sharp and finely observed. . . . An extremely sophisticated and passionate description of the political nightmare visited on small countries by great and powerful nations.” —The New York Times Book Review“Anderson captures the bitter poignancy of foreigners who embrace an exotic land and find their love, and their expectations, unreturned and disappointed.” —Outside“Moonlight Hotel fascinates . . . training a cold, worldly, Greenian eye on the workings of bush league geopolitics. At its best, the novel verges on the blackest satire, but that never kept it from making you feel the tragedy.”—Salon

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Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson is a veteran war correspondent who has reported from Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Sudan, Bosnia, El Salvador and many other strife-torn countries. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, his work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, Harper’s and Outside. He is the author of two novels and six works of nonfiction, including Lawrence in Arabia, an international bestseller, and most recently King of Kings, the story of the 1978-79 Iranian Revolution, and winner of the 2025 Kirkus Prize for nonfiction.

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