What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. Plane crash, lost Vietnam War era base, reincarnation/ghosts, treasure [s]
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Added note,, something I just remembered, novel is set quite a few years after the Vietnam War, the base is overgrown and they have to make use of a semi-wild elephant left behind by the people who used the base.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that book came out in 2005, what I'm remembering was definitely earlier than that.
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Sounds like Carter's Castle
by Wilbur Wright. Description:The four survivors of a jetliner crash in Cambodia, an adolescent girl and boy, a Cambodian stewardess, and a former combat pilot, stumble on an abandoned airbase, a treasure, and two skeletons.
Here is a snip of a longer Kirkus review:
Months after a commercial flight crashes, never to be found, somewhere between Singapore and Hong Kong, four survivors from that disaster crash-land on the Malaysian coast in a long-missing DC-3. What happened? Well, as survivor Donald Carter, a 57-year-old ex-RAF man, recuperates in the hospital, the story emerges in teased-out flashbacks. The four survivors: lonely widower Carter; gorgeous Cambodian stewardess Liane; and two British teenagers, Colin and Debby, who were en route to join their families for the holidays in H.K. The group stumbles through Cambodian rain-forests, coming upon a deserted air-strip, huts with food supplies, even an old, probably unflyable DC-3. But, though they can thus survive, there seems to be no way out of the valley they've landed in. So everyone gets itchy--(view spoiler)
Thank you, that's it. Now to find a copy as this one does not seem to have been ported to Kindle.
What's the Name of That Book???
Books mentioned in this topic
Carter's Castle (other topics)The Reckoning (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Wilbur Wright (other topics)Jeff Long (other topics)
The novel opens with the mid-air breakup of an airliner, I think a Boeing 707 in a storm over either Cambodia or Laos, the three survivors (two male, one female) ride the aircrafts tail down to the ground.
Once there they find an abandoned air base built by the CIA during the Vietnam War, in the hangar is a still intact DC3, that might be fixable.
The rest of the story revolves around their attempts to get the plane working, their discovery of the bases purpose, and of a golden treasure (Khemer?) abandoned when the base was.
Complicating this is that the two younger members of the survivors party both find themselves remembering events in the distant past (Khemer Empire), I cannot remember if it is a case of reincarnation or if ghosts attached to the gold are trying to relive their lives through the survivors.
One scene I have a memory of is that at one point the female survivor under the influence of the supernatural elements suddenly recovers and finds herself about to wake the older of the two survivors by performing a sexual act,.
I think a further plot element is an attempt by someone else to claim the gold.
Title and author both wanted please.