Christians and Muslims fall upon one another in horrific killing sprees in this white-knuckle thriller about religious violence. This tale, based on true accounts of the religious violence that has erupted in the Maluku archipelago since 1999, explores the motives and effects of Islamic militancy as it clashes with a strong Christian community in a new era of religious conflict that afflicts the world today. Not to be missed, this book offers solutions that might save whole nations from a cycle of violence that threatens them every day.
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Quite Good This book is a decent summary of the inter-religious strife that hit Maluku (the Moluccas) in Eastern Indonesia between 1999 and 2002. Though written as a novel, the author has obviously done his research and tried to summarize all factors, events and characters involved in the real conflict in a short book.On the positive side, his general conclusions about the causes of the conflict are pretty correct. He has even managed to remain more impartial than most Westerners writing about…
This book is one of my favourites, and I am giving it a richly-deserved five stars.I read this book while on a visit to south-east Asia so I was buying various introductory works. I thought it was one of most well-crafted works of historical fiction I have ever read. I came back to this title here hoping that the author had published another novel or two. I decided to check out the reviews of this book, and to my surprise and disappointment, I found just one review whose…