Half The Day Is Night: A Novel - Tapa blanda

A nearly perfect work (WASHINGTON POST)

Maureen McHugh has lived up to the promise of CHINA MOUNTAIN ZHANG. What emerges is a kind of Graham Greene tropical adventure, a suspensful narrative of First Worlders trapped in a hostile non-Anglo society. Snazzy yet subtle. (ASIMOV'S)

HALF THE DAY IS NIGHT confirms McHugh's skill at immersing the reader (and her beleagured characters) in a future world so textured, multi-sensory, nuanced and flat-out convincing, both other novelistic places and real world travel seem meagre by comparison. (LOCUS)

nifty prose, with a highly convincing density of detail... On the final page you may find yourself quite surprised to be able to breathe again. Another good writer to watch out for. (SFX)

French-Vietnamese David Dai, veteran of an African war in which he served as a mercenary, has taken a new assignment as bodyguard in Caribe, an underwater nation in the Caribbean. A stranger in a strange land, he enters into a volatile relationship with his new employer Mayla Ling, banker and heiress to an old-money fortune. But, as Mayla negotiates the biggest deal of her life, she attracts the attentions of La Mano di Dios, a revolutionary terrorist group, and David finds himself plunged back into the nightmare of his own violent past...