Jeff Long: The Reckoning

Photojournalist Molly Drake arrives in Cambodia to make an article of the hunt for the remains of American soldiers lost in the jungles during the Vietnam war. Drake makes a mistake and is expelled from the excavation, along with two non-army researchers. The three are planning on leaving, when they get a hot lead and decide to follow it deep in the jungles of Cambodia.

What happens turns swiftly to supernatural. The events take Drake and her group to beautiful ruins in the middle of jungle and things soon become lethal. The story is fascinating, I just had to read it all. Jeff Long has a tendency to wander, I think, but this book was tighter than his other books. I liked that, and to me, The Reckoning is Jeff Long's best novel I've read so far. If you're looking for a highly atmospheric modern ghost story, this one fits the bill. (Review based on the Finnish translation.) [ The Reckoning at Amazon.co.uk ] [ The Reckoning at LibraryThing ]