Pre-Owned Ghosts of Manila (Hardcover) by James Hamilton Paterson, James Hamilton-Paterson

9780374161903. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 279. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 279 p. 130. Ghosts of Manila is a haunting novel set in one of the world's most violent cities. It opens in a wasteland near Manila Airport, where a factory produces marketable human skeletons from the bodies of derelicts - and the victims of police death squads. The violence that follows, rendered in often breathtaking prose, affects a diverse group of characters: an English television journalist who tries gamely to understand Philippine society; a cool woman archaeologist who is drawn into the country's weird oligarchy; a venally corrupt cop who cannot shake the ghosts that visit him; and an embattled family who live in a shantytown near a cemetery where the dead dwell in high style.