A review by missyjohnson
Finding Moon by Tony Hillerman

3.0

first Tony Hillerman for me and I will read more. This one is not "dark Winds" genre. Moon Mathias is an editor at a small newspaper in Colorado. the year is 1975. The Viet Cong are about to overtake Saigon and major evacuations are occurring. Moon's brother (Rick) has a business in Vietnam as an aircraft mechanic and pilot. He has recently died. Moon gets a call that his mother has collapsed at the airport at LAX while waiting on a flight to Manila. Moon heads to LA to check on his mother and finds out that she is traveling to Manila to rescue Rick's infant daughter. This takes place during the fall of Saigon and the beginning of Pol Pot's Khmer Rogue genocide in Cambodia. side stories include Mr. Lum Lee trying to retrieve an urn with ancestor bones, Osa van Winjgarrden wanting to rescue her missionary brother and other somewhat shady characters that Rick had done business with in the past and present. for the most part there was very little eye rolling on my part as to believability. Moon was an interesting character even if I did not find him fully developed.