Orenda Books Book Tour: Death Flight by Sarah Sultoon

 

I have a special nonfiction interest in the Argentinian Dirty War, and I´ve read many testimonies as well as history and political science books on the topic. However, a way to increase the awareness about topics relatively less represented within the non-Argentinian public opinion is through fiction. Thus, my interest in Death Flight, by Sarah Sultoon, an author I had the chance to review on my blog last year as well. The book is published by the one and only Orenda Books, a favorite edition house often featured on my blog.

Sultoon is an international journalist by background with experience in the field of war and conflict reporting and as usual in the case of good journalists, once they are switching to another professional field, for instance writing, they may keep the fine accuracy and respect for truth.

Johnny Murphy, the main character in Death Flight is in the middle of a journalistic investigation interviewing families of victims of the Dirty War. Suddenly, multilated corpses show up on the beach, and together with the equally intrepide partner in journalism, the photographer Paloma Glenn, he wants to find out more. But their journey to make justice at least for few of the over 20,000 people disappeared during those terrible times is made complicated by the devastating financial crisis that hit the country tremendously hard.

I followed breathlessly the story, as it perfectly added a fictional story within a very real chain of events. Johnny and Paloma are two individual characters with destinies that will never be the same after this Argentinian episode, due to the extraordinary weight of the events at the scale of history. 

For lovers of both journalistic stories and novels featuring journalists, Death Flight guarantees a delightful lecture, with important references to (just another) dark episode of contemporary history.

PS: The cover is an example of good publishing taste as well.

Rating: 4.5 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own