Moondogs

Author(s): Alexander Yates

Location(s): Manila, The Philippines

Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Content

Mourning the recent loss of his mother, twentysome­thing Benicio-aka Benny-travels to Manila to reconnect with his estranged father, Howard. But when he arrives his father is nowhere to be found-leaving an irri­tated son to conclude that Howard has let him down for the umpteenth time. However, his father has actually been kid­napped by a meth-addled cabdriver, with grand plans to sell him to local terrorists as bait in the country’s never-ending power struggle between insurgents, separatists, and “demo­cratic” muscle.

Benicio’s search for Howard reveals more about his father’s womanizing ways and suspicious business deals, reopening the old hurts that he’d hoped to mend. Interspersed with the son’s inquiry and the father’s calamitous life in captivity are the high-octane interconnecting narratives of Reynato Ocampo, the local celebrity-hero policeman charged with rescuing Howard: Ocampo’s ragtag team of wizardry-infused soldiers: and Monique, a novice officer at the American embassy whose family still feels feverishly unmoored in the Philippines.

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