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A Flag for Sunrise Paperback – March 10, 1992

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An emotional, dramatic and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution.
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    March 10, 1992
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (March 10, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679737626
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679737629
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 0.97 x 8 inches
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ROBERT STONE was a serial entrepreneur – an enterprising individual, mostly on the wrong side of the law, who spent twenty-five years operating all over the world, before being arrested in Switzerland as a result of an international manhunt led by an Organised Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. Over the course of his career, Stone earned and lost several lifetimes’ worth of fortunes, went to prison on three continents, used dozens of aliases, saw men die, and masterminded one of the biggest marijuana smuggling operations in criminal history. Fuel smuggling in Africa, trading fuel with generals, rebels and businessman, was both his career high and, ultimately, what brought him down.

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Winslow Myers
5.0 out of 5 stars A Flag for Sunrise
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2012
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This is one of those books to which one comes back 4 or 5 times over the course of a life and it strikes deeper each time. After many readings one knows everything that is going to happen plot-wise and yet that in no way diminishes the enjoyment of the feast of poetic, exact language for its own sake.

Especially amazing is the way Stone fleshes out a set of characters, Justin Feeney, Holliwell, Pablo Tabor, Naftali et al, all of whom exhibit what it is really like to be a human being in full ambivalence and confusion, and yet the writing is not at all ambivalent and confused, but pushes to the very limits of verbal expression to say what it is really like to be alive in a fallen, broken world, our world.

One of the reasons the book doesn't date is because it strikes at the heart of the American assumption that we have the right to be in charge, an assumption still working itself out in other faraway places that tragically resemble Stone's imaginary Central American country. But the book is not only effective because it is relevant to ongoing cultural issues. There are incredible set-pieces, Holliwell's drunken lecture, the conversation between Naftali and Tabor, the violence on board the vessel Cloud, the climactic events. Exactly where everyone's allegiance really lies is kept ambiguous enough that you have to really stay alert to work through the fog of paranoia that provides the overall atmosphere of the story, even though there is plenty of pitiless Caribbean sunlight piercing that fog.
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James Reynolds
4.0 out of 5 stars If Quiet American is a five this is a four
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2017
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Better written than Dog Soldiers which I liked
Having been to Costa Rica and Panama in the last two years very strong descriptive prose without impeding the narrative
Several vivid characterizations but utterly cynical as opposed to Dog where there was one character who you could at least root for
An interlocking plot with three strands which I found ultimately implausible
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Montecristo
3.0 out of 5 stars Hast thou a flag for me? - NO!
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2017
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It's not a bad book, but it's kind of strange. The story loses itself time and again and many parts of the plot remain unclear/unsolved. The author often wants to create "intellectual" and philosophical (inner) monologues, but they don't seem convincing to me. One of the few books I threw away after reading...
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Luan Gaines
5.0 out of 5 stars A Third World Apocalypse...
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2002
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The incendiary hint of Revolution simmers on the surface of a South American country beset by poverty and the all-consuming appetite of corporate gluttony. The rolling green hills and sparkling beaches of Tecan are perfect for exploitation. The land is already littered with an assortment of "investors" jockeying for inside information. Revolution spells opportunity, out with the old regime, in with the new, and a tidy profit to be made along the way. The only question is whether to "run with the Rabbit or hunt with the Hare?"
Saints and sinners compete in this Third World nightmare, each with a different agenda. It's an ideological train wreck and the ultimate victims are the disenfranchised. The name of the game is greed and the players are the usual: privately owned corporations, interested governments, a militia trained to fight insurrection, various criminals, religious zealots and a panoply of hired spies and assorted operatives. Our personal guide is Frank Holliwell, an American anthropologist with "Company" ties from his days in Vietnam, visiting the region ostensibly to give a lecture. Holliwell becomes one more pawn in a dangerous game with incredibly high stakes.
In the final act, no one is who he seems in this Darwinian struggle for dominance. The common people are disposable, the cause is mutable and the quality of civilization a casualty of events. Enter at your own risk, this is Robert Stone at his best. But know this: you step into chaos in this novel (with no separate chapters) that jolts from one state of anxiety to another, watching over your shoulder at every turn.
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Art Cloud
5.0 out of 5 stars heavy, and well written
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2013
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I'd be surprised if this no compromise guy doesn't get a Nobel Prize, although he has to beat out John Blandly, Pantson Fire and B. Sting for this semi-prestigious booty.
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franko
4.0 out of 5 stars ... in a Central American country that seems very much like Nicaragua nine years before the Sandinista Revolution ousted Anastas
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2014
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A Flag for Sunrise is the story of four very different people who are brought together by the growing revolutionary conflict in a Central American country that seems very much like Nicaragua nine years before the Sandinista Revolution ousted Anastasio Somoza and broke an eighty year chain of U.S.-backed dictatorships.
• Holliwell is an American academic who spent time in Vietnam before going to Honduras to speak at the university. He is drafted by a pair of CIA agents to come with them to the fictional country of Tecan.
• Pablo Tabor is an awol, drug-addled Coast Guardsman who joins up with a group of gun runners who are heading to Tecan.
• Sister Justin is a beautiful young nun who works in a mission on the Caribbean coast of Tecan. She questions not only her faith, but her reasons for staying in a country where she is not wanted.
• Father Eagan is an elderly priest who works in the mission with Sister Justin. He’s driven to madness after seeing the frozen body of a young woman who was killed by a psycopath who roams the beaches of Tecan.
Robert Stone has written a story that is at times brilliant and mystical, at times unfathomably abstract. He beautifully portrays the lives of four people suffering from the disillusionment and drift that infected so many post-Vietnam Americans. This is not an uplifting book. By the end, the reader is left with the same sense of despair and emptiness that consumes all four characters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars All is vanity. Truth is it’s own reward.
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2020
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Robert Stone is a masterful storyteller and this book casts a powerful spell. God, the Devil, good, evil, murder, political greed and religious struggle all wrapped up in a fictional South American landscape. The world is never a dull place.
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DeeDee
3.0 out of 5 stars Political Commentary
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2014
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This was a book I bought and read for a class. While I'm not a fan of political writing, the book was well-written and contained a beginning, middle, and end for each character's story. Even if the end was not what I wanted to read, it all made sense in the end.
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Len
5.0 out of 5 stars It's a bit of a tough read but worth the effort.
Reviewed in Canada on May 18, 2023
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The story takes place in the fictional Central American state of Tecan. It follows the stories of three central characters until their ultimate clash at the end of the book. Frank Holliwell is a Vietnam vet turned anthropologist who, upon the request of an academic visits Tecan to deliver a lecture and from there, makes his way to the coastal town of Tecan.
Pablo Tabor lives the hand to mouth existence of a speed freak existing only in the moment searching for the feeling the drug provides. He kills his two dogs at the beginning of the story which pretty much ends any empathy the reader may feel toward his character.
It's a bit of a tough read but worth the effort.
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