Synopsis
The unforgettable memoir from the writer immortalized in the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields.
"[A] splendid memoir...a tale, at once tragic and beautiful, of love and loss, of coming of age and of witnessing the end of Indochina as the West had known it for more than a century."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"The English have always seemed peculiarly prone to living adventurous lives, and here's Jon Swain to prove it. Raised in India, Swain joined the French Foreign Legion at 17 and was a foreign correspondent for Agence France-Presse by his early twenties. His first assignment in 1970: Indochina. Swain spent five years there, had a long love affair with the woman commonly thought to be the most beautiful in Saigon, was fired upon numerous times, was working in Phnom Penh when it fell to the Khmer Rouge, had a pistol held to his head by a pissed-off teenage guerrilla, and lived to write River of Time, as thrilling--and disturbing--a memoir as I've read in years."--Men's Journal
"Swain's book pulses with life and death...beautifully written."--Providence Sunday Journal
"Arresting...the author details his unusual experiences in compelling and dramatic terms."--Publishers Weekly
"Swain includes an account of his personal brush with death, after he and the American journalist Sydney Schanberg and the latter's Cambodian assistant, Dith Pran, were detained by guerrillas and threatened with execution...an accomplished memoir." --Kirkus Reviews
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About the Author
Jon Swain has won several British press awards for his reporting at home and abroad, most recently in the Far East, and is on the staff of the Sunday Times.
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