Finding Moon

Ricky Mathias, an American pilot, dies in the last days of the Vietnam War,his infant daughter orphaned somewhere in southeast Asia. Her uncle Malcolm 'Moon' Mathias must set aside his job as a newspaper editor and his nagging self-doubt to find the little girl. From the streets of Manila, to a rural cockfight, into a Filipino prison on Palawan Island, and, finally across the South China Sea to where Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge is turning Cambodia into killing fields and Communist rockets are beginning to fall on the outskirts of Saigon.

Finding Moon is many things: a latter-day adventure epic, a deftly orchestrated romance, an arrested portrait of an exotic realm engulfed in turmoil, and a neatly turned tale of suspense. Most of all its a singular story of how a plain, uncertain man can achieve genuine heroism by battling his fears to find his best self.