Title: A second to "Scent"
Product review: Having lived abroad in Asia for 4 years, I have enjoyed Butler's "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain". The fact that the author lived, ate and spoke among the natives effuses throughout his books. So my disappointment couldn't have been greater when I picked up this book. The action, which the author wants to depict as breathless is listless and the characters come across as pathetic and pitiful when they should be portrayed daring and poignant. As his earlier work, this novel confirms that the author only got better with age.
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